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Sixth District congressman
M. Caldwell Butler’s
representatives will be in
Buena Vista City Hall on
Tuesday, July 16 from 9 a.m.
to 10:30 a.m. and in Lexington
City Hall from 11 a.m. until
12:15 p.m. to meet with

citizens wishing to discuss
problems they are having
with the federal government.

These meetings are among
10 monthly meetings Butler
i holds in the district, and are
in addition to the regular

open door meetings which
• Butler holds himself from
time to time on a non-

scheduled basis.

Any persons wishing to
discuss a particular problem
with Rep. Butler’s
representative should bring
with them all papers and

correspondence dealing with
the case, in addition to their
I veterans claim and socia
security numbers.

Butler Aides
To Visit Area

l|, 1974

THE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Friday, July 1^, 1974

^Letters to the Editor—

Mr. Butler and Abortion

On June 27, Congressman M.
Caldwell Butler cast his vote
against a crucial amendment to
the HEW and Labor Department
appropriations bill (HR 15580).
This amendment would have
prohibited the use of federal
money for abortion payments,
abortion referrals, abortion
promotion, and abortion
research. Two very glaring facts
are evident.

First, federal money — that is,
our tax money — is being and
will be spent profligately on
abortion research, pro-abortion
litigation, and Medicaid
payments for abortion. In
regard to Medicaid payments,
Rep. Angelo Roncallo (R-N.Y.),
who introduced the amendment,
pointed out that over 8 million
Medicaid dollars had been paid
out for abortions in one recent
16-month period in New York
and California alone. Mr. Butler,
who has indicated his concern
for governmental economy,
evidently feels the taxes used to
pay for the destruction of our
next generation are wisely

spent.

Second, we may deduce that
Mr. Butler, who has promised
many of his constituents to have
an open mind on the question of a
right-to-life amendment, was
either speaking platitudinously
or has now closed his mind. How
can we expect him to support a
right-to-life amendment, which
would outlaw abortion per se,
when he votes for continued
spending of our federal taxes in
support of abortion programs
and even direct abortion
payments?

Taxpayers and voters of the
Sixth District may not thank Mr.
Butler for his stand on spending
our money for such purposes but
at least we may thank him for
finally making his position clear.
We know now that he is pro-
abortion and in favor of spending
tax monies to promote abortion.
We know this and on election day
we will remember it.

Henry B. Larzelere, M.D.,
1900 Tate Spring Rd.,
Lynchburg.

named for Ford's

appearance

ROANOKE— A Roanoke
banker will serve as general
chairman for the first ap-
pearance of Vice President
Gerald Ford to Southwest
Virginia.

Warner N. Dalhouse,
executive vice president of the
First National Exchange Bank
of Roanoke, is in charge of
arrangements for Ford’s Friday
visit here. Mr. Dalhouse, a
young civic leader active on both
local and state levels, is a
member of the Governor’s
Advisory Board for Industrial
Development, the Mayor’s Task
Force on Housing and is on the
Board of Trustees of Virginia
Western Community College.

The event, called “An Evening
With Vice President Gerald
Ford”, will be a $100-a-couple
gala beginning at 6:30 p.m. at
Hotel Roanoke.

The reception will be preceded
by a 5:30 p.m. press conference,
the first with the Vice President
for representatives of Virginia
news media.

■

26-12 vote'll'
to impeach
reported

i NEW YORK (AP) - Time
[magazine says if House
[Judiciary Committee members
jvote the way they were leaning
past week, they would approve
/impeachment of President Nix-
fon by a 26-12 tally.

However, Time said since
“many of the members have
been jumping back and forth
almost by the minute, it
seemed unlikely that all
members would vote according
to their leanings of last week.”

Before the full House of
Representatives can consider
impeachment, it must be first
voted for by a majority on the '
committee, which is composed
of 21 Democrats and 17 Re-
publicans.

The magazine said in-
terviews with committee
members indicated that as of
last week 10 Republicans were
likely to vote against articles of
impeachment.

Republicans listed as solidly
against impeachment were:
Charles Wiggins and Carlos
Moore head of California,
Charles Sandman and Joseph
Maraziti of New Jersey, Ed-
ward Hutchinson of Michigan,
Trent Lott of Mississippi and
Delbert Latta of Ohio:

Time said the Republicans
leaning against impeachment
were: Wiley Mayne of Iowa,
Henry P. Smith of New York
and David Dennis of Iowa.

According to the magazine,
the anti-impeachment forces
on the committee probably will
get one or two Southern Demo-
cratic votes from two con-
gressmen who were not identi-
fied. Southern Democrats
“leaning toward impeachment
but not yet counted solidly for
it” include Walter Flowers of
Alabama, James Mann of
South Carolina and Ray
Thorntown of Maine, said
Time.

Described as the two Re-
publicans “most certain” to
vote for impeachment were
William Cohen of Maine and
Hamilton Fish Jr. of New
York. Five other republicans
were reportedly leaning
toward impeachment.

Time said these five Re-
publicans were leaning toward
impeachment: Illinois’ Thomas
Railsback and Robert McClory,
M Caldwell Butler of Virginia,
Lawrence Hogan of Maryland
and Harold Froelich of Wiscon-
sin.

Doar to propose articles of impeachment

WASHINGTON (AP) - The
case for impeachment will be
presented to the House
Judiciary Committee by its
staff at two closed-door brief-
ings leading up to the
committee’s final deliberations
next week.

At the first session today,
special counsel John Doar is
expected to propose at least
three broad articles of im-
peachment charging President
Nixon witji obstruction of jus-
tice, abuse of his constitutional
powers and contempt of Con-
gress.

— A Republican men der, pf
the committee pr edicted on
~ Thursday that both the com-~
^Jjy^JIIndJhe House wili ap^
jroveat least one article, lead-
ing to a Senate trial to de-
termine whether Nixon should

, be removed from office.

Rep. Robert McClory, R-Ill.,
told newsmen that three or
four committee Republicans
are likely to vote for impeach-
ment and that it could be
much higher. He said only five
of 17 Republican members
could be counted as definitely
opposed to impeachment at
this time.

< — a meeting called by the
House — Rep ublican leadership
J°__ dete rmine w here Jthe com"
_ o^tee~Jl ^irb]^ans stand Me-"
Clory was one of five members
.. wjo _eith^^ were un-

decided_Qr declined to gi ve""
their views.

— XRk._others were Reps.
Tidwell Butler of Virginia,
William S. Cohen of Maine,
Hamilton Fish of New York
and Tom Railsback of Illinois.

Some others indicated their
position will be determined by
the articles of impeachment
that, are proposed.

In related developments on
Thursday, the committee re-
leased evidence collected dur-
ing its six-month-long im-
peachment inquiry. Among the
disclosures were:

—Former presidential aide
John D. Ehrlichman says Pres-
ident Nixon “indicated his
after-the-fact approval” of the
break-in at the office of Daniel
Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. Nixon
has maintained publicly that
he abhored the incident.

—Memos by late FBI Direc-
tor J. Edgar Hoover on three
occasions cited Henry A. Kiss-
inger as directly authorizing
wiretaps on government of-
ficials and newsmen. Kissinger

has denied making such re-
quests and has asked the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee to clear him of any such
involvement.

-To stop news leaks in 1971,
Nixon seriously considered or-
dering lie-detector tests for
1,000 or more government
workers with access to top-
secret documents. The Pres-
ident didn’t pursue the idea
when he was informed that a
single suspect had already
been identified.

-Vice President Gerald R.
Ford said he has listened to
some of the White House tapes
and that he now understands
why there is disagreement ov-
er what they say. The audio
quality of the tapes was poor,
he said.

In his final defense argu-

ment before the committee
Thursday, James D. St. Clair,
Nixon’s attorney, asserted
there was no evidence of presi-
dential involvement in Water-
gate or any other matters the
committee has investigated.

St. Clair sought to buttress
his argument by producing a
partial transcript of a March
22, 1973, conversation between
Nixon and his former chief of
staff, H. R. Haldeman, that he
said showed Nixon had no
knowledge of a $75,01)0
payment to Watergate burglar
E. Howard Hunt Jr. and that
he disapproved of paying Hunt
“blackmail.”

However, the tape was one
of the 147 the committee has
subpoenaed and Nixon has re-
fused to provide.

Ford Comes
For Dollars,
Goodwill

By MELVILLE CARICO
Times Political Writer

Vice-President Gerald Ford, in his
role as the GOP's biggest fund raiser, will
be in Roanoke briefly this evening on be-
half of the re-election of two Republican
congressmen. But. if anything, his trip
may generate more goodwill than hard
cash. ,

The centerpiece is a reception at Ho-
tel Roanoke which will gross Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler of the 6th and Rep. Wil-
liam C. Wampler of the 9th between
$10,000 and $15,000. Over 200 had made re-
servations by Thursday with tickets $100 a
couple.

An Analysis

But out of the receipts the congress-
men have to pay the hotel for the recep-
tion, mailing out invitations, and the
travel expenses, including food and hotel
bills, lor a staff of advance men and Se-
cret Service agents.

They • have been in Roanoke several
days checking on every detail of the vice
presidents stop from his landing at Wood-
rum Airport at 4:55 p.m. to his departure
for Hot Springs after the reception.

Despite the political overtones of the
visit there will be very little opportunity
for the voting public to see the vice presi-
dent whose name virtually overnight be-
came a household word with his selection
by President Nixon to succeed Spiro T. A g-
new following his resignation.

Since then the House minority leader,
a former All-American center at Michi-
gan. has raised over $700,000 for the GOP
and. in doing so. made himself one of the
most likely choices for the Republican
nomination for president in 76.

Despite this, his trip will have a low
public profile in Roanoke.

He Will be met at Woodrum Airport by
Lt. Gov. John N. Dalton and presented the
keys to the city by Mayor Roy L. Webber,
t a Democrat.

He will be whisked to Hotel Roanoke
for a 5:30 press conference which will be
broadcast live by radio station WTOY.

; About 15 wire service and Washington-
based reporters are traveling with the
vice president.

The route of the vice president’s mo-

Common Folks Won't See Much of Ford

From Page 1 ^/j CJ

torcade from Woodrum Airport to Hotel
Roanoke was not announced but one
source said it will be by Interstate 581 be-
cause it is faster and less congested than
down densely populated Williamson Road.

The fund-raising reception at Hotel
Roanoke will start at 6:30 but the vice
president is not expected to “come down"’
until about 7 p.m. to mingle with the party
contributors.

Plans call for Rep. Butler to introduce
the vice president and for Ford'' to make
some brief remarks— nothing heavy, that
is. An enjoyable event is the way one of
Butlers campaign staff described the ef-
fort.

Homestead. Press representatives will
make the 70-mile trip from Roanoke to the
mountain resort by bus.

Ford will be introduced at the Satur-
day night dinner by Gov. Mills E. Godwin
Jr., a former conservative Democrat who
joined the GOP in 1973 and who, undoubt-
edly, will have a big voice in whom the
Virginia delegation supports for the par-
ty's presidential nomination in 76.

During the past seven months Ford in
his cross-country travels has raised over
$700,000 for his party at dinners and recep-
tions. Most of it has gone to local candi-
dates and party organizations because his
travel costs for party functions has been
paid by the Republican National Commit-

since he will be there as the vice presi
dent— not a political party leader. But the
protocol and security is the same.

Ford will fly to Hot Springs by helicop-
ter after the reception for a day of relaxa-
tion and a Saturday night speech to the
Virginia State Bar Association at The

tee.

His travels as the vice president to
such functions as the lawyers' convention
at Hot Springs is borne by the government

16 THE ROANOKE TIMES, Fridoy, July 19. 1974

James D. St. Clair

M. Caldwell Butler, R-Va.

rticularly attentive
listener, prodigious note taker,
and a very efficient operator."

Nixon's Lawyer Represents
The Office, Not the Man

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON - “I don't represent
Mr. Nixon personally; I represent him
in his capacity as president/* James
Draper St. Clair said in an interview
two months after he became President
Nixon ‘s lawyer.

This classical lawyer’s detachment
parallels what has been a principal
theme in his client’s own defense * 1 ; Nix-
on has said that he is fighting to pre-
serve not himself but the Presidency.
St. Clair has said he does not represent
Nixon “individually” but rather “the
office of the presidency.” But he has
made it clear that, as long as he is Nix-
on’s counsel, he is committed to him
entirely. “I only reflect the President's
views,” he said recently when he was
asked if a statement did just that.

The 54-year-old lawyer was criticized
by a former client, the Rev. William
Sloane Coffin, as being “all case and no
cause.” a stance that he has main-
tained through his first five months as
the President’s defense counsel. It also
is a posture in the tradition of such not-
able lawyers as the late John W. Davis,
who during his long career argued both
sides in civil rights cases with equal
eloquence.

Smiling, imperturbably good-natured
and courteous, St. Clair has made no
secret of the fact that he would rather
be back in Boston practicing law in the
prestigious firm of Hale & Dorr, from
which he resigned as a partner to ac-
cept, his present $42,500-a-year position.

Man in the News

But few believe that he will not stay
with his client until the end of the case,
if only because his withdrawal would be
so damaging to Nixon.

Not that there has been even the
smallest indication from St. Clair that
he has any doubts about the case or his
client. On the contrary, he has said that
he believes in Nixon’s innocence while
calmly holding to his own self-defini-
tion. “I have noticed a lot of people feel

I should be making presidential deci-
sions.” he said in reply to a question on
a recent television question-and-an-
swer program. “I don’t have that au-
thority nor do I have that real
capability.”

He added, in reply to a following
question; “Ultimately the President,
as the client, has the ultimate decision
to make; as a lawyer, I advise him.”

“I don’t think he’s ever surrendered
an inch of his client’s position,” was
part of an assessment of St. Clair made
by Robert W. Meserve, a former presi-
dent of the American Bar Association
who has tried cases against St. Clair.

And that describes St. Clair in his
present role. He has contested every
allegation, sought to narrow the
charges and discredit the prosecution’s j
witnesses and stressed that it is the

presidency, not the man, that is at
stake.

As the tempo has quickened, St.
Clair’s weekend trips home to the Bos-
ton suburb of Wellesley Hills have be-
come less frequent; his wife of 30
years, the former Asenath Nestle —
known as Billie — has occasionally
come to Washington for a weekend to
join him at the Madison Hotel, where
he has been living since he took the
case in January. The St. Clairs have
three children.

St. Clair, born in Akron, Ohio, April
14. 1920, graduated from the University
of Illinois in 1941.

After one term at Harvard Law
School, he joined the Navy for the dura-
tion of the war. Then he returned to
Harvard and graduated in 1947.

He joined Hale & Dorr, working un-
der Joseph N. Welch, who served as
special counsel for the United States
Army during the 1954 Army-McCarthy
hearings. St. Clair was an assistant
counsel during those televised hear-
ings, which were as popular with the
nation’s television audience in their
day as were last year’s Watergate
hearings — and as the Judiciary Com-
mittee’s hearings are likely to be. v
/ St. Clair has been described by one\
* member of the committee, M. Caldwell I
Butler, R-Va., as “a particularly atten -/
tive listener, prodigious notetaker, ancj/
s^a very efficient operator.”

'HE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Friday, J

^—Letters to the Editor

The Other Side of Abortion

Having noted two letters products of their bodies.

longer remain silent.

While I am not a women’s
libber, as such, and am a proud
mother who tries to follow the
Christian way of life, I do think a r
woman should have the right to ^
determine what her body will or I
will not do. I, personally, under <
circumstances other than dire, f
would not consent to an abortion,
but all women are not so blessed. 1

I noted also that the two letters 1
were authored by males. Until
men consent to vasectomies to
eliminate unwanted children or
participate in the process of
bearing children, women should
have the right to control the

recently in The News-Virginian
attacking Rep. Caldwell Butler’s
voting pro-abortion, I can no

Linda Mawyer,

649 Chestnut Ave.,
Waynesboro.

/a. GOP turning
affections to Ford

By OZZIE OSBORNE
Political Writer

Virginia Republicans appear
to have switched their affec-
tions from Spiro Agnew to his
successor, Vice President Ger-
ald-Ford.

That, at least, is the impres-
sion gained from talks with
more than a dozen prominent
Republican politicians.

And most see Ford as the
1976 Republican presidential
nominee, despite his claims
that he’s not interested in run-
ning.

The consensus, - tocrr ia -fch«v
Ford has helped himself im-
measurably by the dozens of
appearances he has been mak-
ing throughout the country on
behalf of GOP candidates.

Ford is coming to Roanoke
today on a campaign swing in
/behalf of Republican congres-
sional candidates William
Wampler of the Ninth District
\ and Caldwell Butler of the
\ Sixth District He is expected.
\to arrive by plane at 4:55 p.nv
at Roanoke’s Woodrum Field.

But Del. Ray L. Garland of
Roanoke, candidate for U.S.
Senate in 1970, said he feels
Ford has ‘‘squandered his
political capital” by being
overly helpful to others.

Garland said that he meant
that Ford has dissipated some
of his strength by doing so
much speaking in which he has
had to defend President Nix-
on’s position, while at the same
time not compromising his
own.

He said other prospective
presidential candidates haven t
had to put themselves on the
line, or as Garland put it, ‘‘they
have been quiet as a tomb.”

Of Ford, he said: “He has
converted himself into an air
raid shelter for the Republican
party.”

But most Republicans uiter-
. viewed seemed to share the
feeling expressed by Sen. Dav-
id F. Thorton of Salem, who
said:

‘♦Most of the Republicans
I've talked to in Virginia feel
Ford would be their No. 1
choice ... he is coming across
strong.”

He said Ford’s statement
that he is not interested in
being the GOP presidential
nominee in 1976 is the sort that
could be expected of one in his
position.

“Times and circumstances
change,” said Thornton so the

Ford statement “must be tak-
en with a grain of salt.”

Del. Vincent Callahan of
Fairfax, leader of the Republi-
can minority in the General
Assembly, said Ford would
have to be considered the lead-
ing presidential contender for
the GOP nomination. •

“We’re looking for a winner
and he has all the credentials,”
said Callahan.

Del. Ray Robrecht of Roa-
noke County said that Ford’s
votes in Congress showed his

t n-

political philosophy is in tune
with that of most Virginians.

“Most Virginians feel com-
fortable with him,” said Ro-
brecht.

Sen. H. D. Dawbarn of A
Waynesboro said that Ford
“has got to be considered the
front-runner” for the GOP
presidential nomination in
1976.

Oddly, few of those inter-
viewed had little to say about

See VA., Pg. 20, Col. 1

/-/ - - •

-Ctl

The World-News. Roanoke, Va., Frh

Ya. GOP turning
affections to Ford

From Page 17

any potential GOP presidential
nominees other than Ford.

Garland mentioned Nelson
Rockefeller, former governor
of New York, and U.S. Sen.
Charles' H. Percy of Illinois.

Nobody brought up the name of
Gov. Ronald Reagan of Califor-
nia.

Garland said he thinks any
struggle for nomination will be
between Ford and Rockefeller
and said he feels it “highly
likely” that in a showdown
Ford would step aside for
Rockefeller.

“If the party is in a desper-
ate position in 1976— as seems
likely— it may want a new
face,’’’ said Garland. He said
Rockefeller could well be it.

Rockefeller had some
strength in Virginia when he
sought the GOP presidential
nomination in 1968, getting two
of Virginia’s 24 votes at the na-
tional convention. One of these
was cast by Mrs. Cynthia New-
man, the state’s GOP national
committeewoman .

Before his resignation, Ag-
new was extremely popular
with Virginia Republicans—
more popular, some said, than
even President Nixon.

THE NEWS, Lynchburg, Va., Fri., July 19, 1974

Congress Rapped On Appropriations

WASHINGTON - Sixth Dis-
trict Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
says in his latest newsletter to
constituents in Virginia that
the failure of Congress to com
plete action on any appropria-
tions for. this fiscal year is
“symptomatic of our apparent
inability to keep up with the
tasks before us.”

Butler said many factors
contribute to this situation—
the complexity of modern leg-
islation, an antiquated commit-
tee system, partisan disputes
and delaying tactics, and too
frequent Congressional re-
cesses.

“In addition,” the con-
gressman said, “the House and
Senate often take different ap-
proaches to legislative
problems, and conference com-
mittees appointed to work out
differences in the House and
k Senate versions of the same

bill may take months to com-
plete their work.”

The new fiscal year began
July 1 and Butler noted that
the government is now being
funded by a Continuing Reso-
lution which allows the various
departments to continue opera-
tion in the absence of new ap-
propriations.

Butler said “This is not to
indicate, however, that the
93rd Congress has not made
progress. Since January, 1973,
320 public bills have become
law. The House has passed and
sent to the Senate over 300
bills. Thirty bills are pending
in Conference Committees. In
the remaining months, a
number of additional signifi-
cant and controversial bills’
should be before us.”

Among major legislative
proposals which Butler says
committee spokesmen say will
probably be reported out in
time for consideration this
year are-^tax reform legisla-
tion and health insurance bills,
the Federal Campaign reform
bill, legislation dealing with in-
terest rate policies and bills to
extend the life of the export

import bank and the trade ad-
ministration act, author-
izations for foreign aid and leg-
islation to ban importation of
Rhodesian chrome, and a safe
drinking water bill.

Butler said that among the
46 bills reported out of House
committees and awaiting legis-
lative action are the Surface
Mining Reclamation Act, the
Consumer Product Warranty
bill, the Poultry Indemnifica-
tion Act, the High Seas Oil and
Ports Act, the Non-nuclear
Energy Research and Develop-
ment Act, the Developmental
Disabilities Act, and the Health
Revenue Sharing Act.

“Significant legislation cur-
rently in conference commit-
tee,” Butler said, “includes the
Consumer Protection Agency

Act, the Legal Services bill, the
Solar Energy legislation, the
Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Act, the Urban Mass
Transportation Act, Private
Pension reform legislation, the
Federal Deposit Insurance bill,
the Veterans Education and
Rehabilitation Amendments,
the Fire Prevention and Con-
trol Act, and legislation to
fund cancer and diabetes re-
search.

Butler said that at present,
the House of Representatives is
disposing of an unusually large
volume of legislation and “it is
apparent to me that the House
leadership is clearing the floor
of the House for consideration
of the anticipated Report of
the Judiciary Committee on
impeachment...”

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2y LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON
HOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP) -
Vice President Gerald R. Ford
said he won’t engage in any
“arm-twisting lobbying” to
ward off President Nixon’s pos-
sible impeachment by the
House.

(& *

“I think that’s an insult to I campaign for R on ..ki-
m ? t members of the Hous-,” | ^fall’s electioS^^

Ford said.

At the same time, the ^ce
president, who maintains *vi-
dence does not exist to pDve
Nixon has committed anyim-

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that basis is. He told a news

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peachable offense, said hewill | conference Frid/v [T± news

— - Roanoke, Va., that he might

well campaign for and support

. , De ™ ocratlc candidate who
had shown support f or Nixon
administration policies
En route to ^

Springs he modified that stand

I tic candidates whose dis

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a press spokesman. 8

r a M ,rd )T dl o cam P a 'gn for Rep
Caldwell Butler, R-Va., a mem

oer of the House Judiciarv
Committee which soon mu<
vote whether or not to issue ‘

in impeachment a 8ains

Ford told reporters he wnnin
campaign for Butler again nn

matter how Butler vo4 on ’im

Peachment. on lm ‘

Ford praises Butler as being
6 first class’ representative

By OZZIE OSBORNE
Political Writer

Vice President-Gerald' Ford
has warmly praised Rep. Cald-
well Butler as “a first class
member of the House of Repre-
sentatives” and said he’d like
to come back and campaign for
him this fall if asked.

“If Mr. Butler would like me
to come back, I’d be glad to do
so.” Ford said yesterday as he
visited Roanoke, where he held
a brief news conference and
attended a reception. Ford said
the offer holds even if Butler
votes to impeach President
Nixon.

Ford also praised the House
Judiciary Committee, on which
Butler serves, for its handling
of impeachment proceedings.

He said he does not agree
with Ron Ziegler, President
Nixons press secretary, who
has described the committee
as a “kangaroo court.”

• Asked if the President
agreed with Ziegler’s assess-
ment. Ford said he had never
discussed the matter with the
President.

Ford said again, as he has
dozens of times before, that he
doesn't believe there are
grounds for impeaching Nixon.

Although' most of the report-
ers' questions dealt with im-
peachment. Ford said this
country's main problem is in-
flation.

He blamed that on the “fiscal
irresponsibility” of Congress
and implied things would get
worse if the Democrats gain 50
seats in the House of Repre-
sentatives this fall— a predic-
tion being made by some
political pundits.

Democrats say this would
give them a veto-proof Con-
gress, but Ford said it would,.,
in effect, be a legislative dicta-
torship.

In calling for the reelection
of Reps. William C. Wampler
and Butler, Ford said “we
want an inflation-proof Con-
gress.”

But Ford said' he is not too
worried about the over-ail eco-
nomic situation. He said unem-
ployment figures show that
“we're in good shape.”

The reception which Ford
attended was a fund-raising af-
fair for both Butler and Wam-
pler of the 9th District. '

But the $100-a-couple affair,
attended by about 200, was ex-
pected to raise little money af-
ter all expenses were taken
care of.

Surprisingly few Republican
leaders from throughout the
state attended the Ford affair.
Those who did included former
Gov. Linwood Holton, now an
aide to Secretary of State Hen-
ry Kissinger, and Lt. Gov. John
N. Dalton.

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Ford's trip here was low-key
all the way and lacking in the
hoopla that surrounded visits
by Spiro T. Agnew when he was
vice president.

No effort was made to get £
crowd to the airport and this
showed since fewer than 100
persons turned out.

Ford shook hands with many
of these after his plane landed
45 minutes behind schedule and
following a brief ceremony in
which he was given the key to
the city by Mayor- Roy L. Web-
ber.

At the reception. Ford min-
gled— or at least tried to min-
gle— with the crowd. But it was
mostly a mob scene as he was
accompanied by television
crews, newspaper reporters,
GOP bigwigs and Secret Ser-
vice people.

Ford made brief remarks at
the reception endorsing both
Wampler and Butler.

Ford and his party left Roa-
noke shortly after 8 o'clock for
Hot Springs where he will
speak to the Virginia Bar Asso-
ciation. He will be introduced
by Gov. Mills- E. Godwin Jr.

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Virginia's Congressmen
Have Praise for Butler

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vir-
ginia’s congressional delega-
tion praised the power and
‘‘conscience” of Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler’s impeachment
statement Thursday, but re-
mained publicly cautious on
how they might vote them-
selves.

None the less, some private
assessments within the delega-
tion suggested that Butler
might carry at least four or
five ofher Virginia congress-
men for impeachment.

. Butler, the only Virginian on
the House Judiciary Commit-
tee, said he would “not stand
stjH tor’ the corruption of
presidential power revealed by
the impeachment inquiry; and

said he is inclined to vote for
Articles of impeachment on ob-
struction of justice and abuse
of power.

. ‘‘It was a very powerful
statement,” said Rep. G. Wil-
liam Whitehurst, a Republican
from the Norfolk-Virginia
Beach 2nd District.

, .“U e is not dealing in general-
ities, he is dealing in specif-
ics,” Whitehurst said.
Whitehurst also said, “I've
been disturbed by a lot” of the
corruption of power which But-
ler described. But. Whitehurst
said, he would “weigh very
carefully” other evidence and
the exact language of the im-
peachment articles before he
makes up his own mind. *

Rep. Robert W. Daniel,
Whitehurst’s Tidewater Repub-
lican colleague said, “I hold
Caldwell Butler to be a man of
high integrity and conscience. I
am sure that what he is doing is
interpreting the evidence as he
sees it to be and making his
decision accordingly. I do not
know that I will respond to the
same facts in the same wav
that he did.” y

Rep. William C. Wampler, a
Republican from Bristol, said
he missed hearing Butler’s re-
marks. But, Wampler said “I
have nothing but the highest
personal regard and respect
for Caldwell Butler. I am sure
that his being on the committee

he is privy to things we afen’fc
privy to.

“Whatever position he final-
ly takes would have some influ-
ence on me, but the final
decision is mine. And my mind
is still open.”

„ Wampler cautioned that
we are creating precedence
here which could haunt this
country for years and I want to
be very careful what I do.”

A Northern Virginia Republi-
can Stanford Parris termed
Butler’s remarks “reasoned.”
Rep. Thomas N. Downing, a
Tidewater Democrat, said, “I
was tremendously impressed
with his statement. He was sin-
cere and stated his point of
view very well.”

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Ford To Support Butler,
Whatever His Impeach Vote

By MELVILLE CARICO
Times Political Writer

Vice President Gerald R. Ford said in
Roanoke Friday he would come back into
the 6th District to campaign for Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler this fall even if Butler
votes for the impeachment of President
Nixon.

But, the former House Minority Lead
er from Michigan told a press conference
in Butler’s hometown, he does not think
there is any justification for impeach-
ment-something he has been . saying in
coast to coast barnstorming that has
brought in $700,000 for the Watergate-be-
leaguered GOP.

Ford acknowledged he had said he
would not campaign for every Republican
congressman up for re-election— that his
efforts this fall will be what he described
as “highly selective,”

But he hastened to emphasize that it
will not matter whether the congressman
votes against impeachment of President
Nixon — that there are “other very, serious
and equally important votes.”

Ford said whether a congressman
votes for or against the president “is a
matter of serious and independent judg-
ment.”

Ford, who was 61 last Sunday and is a
rapidly rising front runner for the Republi-
can nomination for president in 1976, met
with the press before attending a $100 a
couple fund raising reception for Butler
and Rep. William C. Wampler from the
neighboring 9th District.

He got a warm, friendly reception
from the 208 paying guests— about as
many as there were Secret Service agents
and local police— and in doing so said the
“fundamental issue” in this year’s con-
gressional election is a fiscally responsi-
ble Congress.

But the planning for this trip into Roa-
noke, the heart of the 6th which has had a
GOP congressman since 1952, discouraged
any public turnout to see the vice presi-
dent.

Flanked by Butler and Wampler, the
vice president told the reception guests at/
Hotel Roanoke that he knows of no two Re-
publican members of Congress who de-
serve more to be re-elected.

But, on a larger plane, Ford, who him-
self has been through 13 congressional
campaigns in Michigan, said the nation
must decide this fall whether it wants a’
Congress that will unquestionably over-
ride President Nixon’s vetoes.

Ford told the Republicans, some from
as far away as Lynchburg, Danville and
Bristol, that Democrats are predicting a
net gain of 50 House seats in November.

Most, he said, would be liberals who
would give the Democrats a “legislative
dictatorship” and create a political sys-
tem in this country dominated by liberals.

With congressional backing, Ford,
said, the President in the last three and
one half years was able to veto $27 billion
in spending.

Ford said the No.l problem facing this
country is inflation— an inflation which he

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Photos of Ford's Visit to Roanoke
— Pages 6 and 7

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V,ce President Ford and Rep. M. Caldwell Butler Greet Fans Upon Ford's Arrival in Roanoke

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back seat to blue eyes

; By MARY B. ARMISTEAD
Women’s Editor

The vice president of the
United States talked of deep
and serious matters at his news
conference yesterday at' Hotel
Roanoke and everything he
said was noted with due re-
spect. scribbled on paper or
whispered into tape recorders.

A regular procedure.

The vice president of the
United States turned to lighter
things in the hotel’s Shenan-
doah Room, where about 200
gathered for a substantial buf-
fet at a substantial donation,
and no matter what he said, all
the women took note of were
his deep blue eyes. He spoke
glowingly of Republican con-
gressional candidates William
Wampler of Virginia’s 9th Dis-
trict and Caldwell Butler of the
6th, and the women said “my
aren’t they blue.” His eyes.

The nattily-clad vice presi-
dent waxed eloquent about an
overspending Congress and
how it allegedly has the coun-
try running in the red, and the
formally-gowned women kept
on about his eyes. Inflation?
Phooey. They fight it every day
at home; why listen to more
about it, even from Gerald
Ford, when there he was, trim
in pale plaid, a midnight blue
tie slashing his soft blue shirt
and, you guessed it, making his
blue eyes ever bluer.

The women had milled and
murmured until he came; the
women had nibbled and nod-
ded. Men in wild colors and
proper afternoon suits or ones
echoing the Gatsby look, did
the same until, nearly an hour
off schedule, the nations sec-
ond highest official strode in
and a goodly part of the hotel
became Ford Country. Up one
side of the room he went, shak-
ing hands, shaking hands;
down the other side he came,
shaking hands, shaking hands;
cameramen following, Secret
Service men on guard; blinking
into rudely intruding lights,
jostled, jolted, jabbed at and
jerked, Gerald Ford in Ford
Country. An almost daily pro-
cedure and one he withstands
well.

His wife, Betty, apparently
lacks such stamina. “We had a
long, hard day in Michigan
Thursday,” Ford explained to
Ms. Janet Jenkins, “and my
wife regretted very much
being too tired to make this
trip. We ll both try to come
back again.”

And Ms. Jenkins, assistant to
the hotel’s general manager,
Kenneth Wilkey, thought all
her efforts in the couple’s be-
half well worth it anyway. With
Wilkey out of the country, the
burden of hotel housekeeping
for the expected dignitaries
had her running all this week.

She had special flowers in thel
third floor Presidential Suite]
made available for the Fords
convenience. She coped wit]
demands of advance security
guards, but thought them noi
unreasonable. She saw that ev-
erything “was sparkling cleanl
and in the best of order;” she!
suffered a security check asl
did even the room service per-
sonnel, and she shushed the
chef, Heinz Schlegel, when a
Food and Drug Administration
man patroled the kitchen to
supervise Ford’s food prepara-
tions.

Indeed, before his arrival,
the hotel functioned like an
embattled fortress. All front

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entrances to the grounds were
roped off Thursday, causing
guests to unload their belong-
ings at the fountain and have
their automobiles whisked off
somewhere else. Dozens of
men with little walkie-talkie
things were in constant motion
indoors and out; the 567th AAA
was having a reunion, and Ger-
ald Ford was coming. “Wilkey
will be sorry he missed this,”
his assistant commented.

The vice president had a
shimmering blue backdrop,
flanked by the American and
Virginia State flags for his
20-minute news conference.
The reception area prepared
for him had massive flower ar-
rangements on long tables run-
ning parallel to several busy
bars, and a roped off platform
for his short pep talk.

And apparently what the
well-dressed woman wears to a
well-dressed political fund-

raiser is cool jersey in a tropi-
cal print. Mrs. Linwood Holton
did, a slim, high-necked color
riot in blues, oranges and
mauve. Mrs. John Dalton of
Radford did too, her’s a short-
sleeved creation with a deeply-
curved neckline and ideal, she
said, “because the print hides a
lot of figure flaws. With so
many flowers, no one can tell
what shape you’re in.”

She looked in fine shape, as
did Mrs. Holton who reported
her son. Woody, describes his
summer job as “preserving the
beauty and dignity of Washing-
ton.” In truth, she said, he’s
raking leaves and cutting grass
at the Capitol. On the plane
with the vice presidential party
yesterday, he shared a joke
with Ford at the expense of the
pilot who reportedly made an
unusually bumpy arrival at
Woodrum Airport. “We’ll have
to thank him for two landings,”

Ford told the delighted young
Holton.

William Wampler’s wife was
absent at the reception but
Rep. Butler’s wife was on hand
in red and white dotted swiss.
“Don’t pay attention to my
dress,” she joked. “Describe
my shoes (white with red snap-
on flowers); they cost more
than anything else.”

Things wound down when the
vice president and his entour
age swept out for The Home-
stead where he will address the
Virginia Bar Association this
evening. He left a good back-
wash: personable, patient, per-
suasive and powerful. His
smile held steady; he, did in-
deed, “look like a football play-
er but a gentlemanly one,” as a
guest remarked, and his blue
eyes looked steadily ahead tc
another day of jostlinq, jolting
people, the ones he charms ir
Ford Country.

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Roanoke Mayor Roy Webber presents key to city

F ord In Roanoke
On Butler Behalf

ROANOKE (AP) — . Vice
JEr esident Gerald R. Ford said
^Friday he will not base his
support for Republican
'members of Congress this fall
vp n whether they~Vbte~f or
ag ainst President Nixon’s irii-
peachment.

And he said he might, in
selective cases, campaign for
some well-qualified Democrats
who have generally supported
Nixon administration policies.

Ford said also he disagrees
with White House Press Secre-
tary Ronald L. Zielger’s com-
ments that Rep. Peter W.
Rodino, D-N.J., chairman of
the House Judiciary Commit-
tee, is running “a kangaroo
court.”

The vice president told a j
news conference here “It’s my
judgment that Mr. Rodino has
done his utmost to handle the
(impeachment) inquiry in a
fair and proper way.

“I certainly would not call
the manner in which that com-
mittee has operated a
kangaroo court,” Ford said. “I
think they’ve worked very
hard to do a responsible job.”

- Ford is campaigning in

southwestern Virginia for Rep.
JJaldwell Butler, a Republican
member of the Judiciary Com-
* niittee who, like his colleagues.
^must soon^vote on whether to

the fu l l House.

m Butiec _Js uncommitted on
the issue, and Ford was asked -
whether he would return to
campaign for him if Butler
, votes against the President.

Ford said he would return if
invited and added, “I respect
the individual views of
members of Congress on all
issues, including this one.”

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that he will tell those members
who ask that he does not be-
lieve there is any evidence Nix-
on has committed an im-
peachable offense.

As for his personal cam-
paigning, Ford said, “I won’t
predicate my appearance or
absence in a congressional dis-
trict because a person votes for
or against the President. That
is a matter of serious personal
judgment.”

Ford said he would assess
the over-all quality of can-
didates and added, “I would
campaign for and support
some Democrats.” He did not
elaborate.

Responding to a series of
related questions, Ford said,
“I’m not going out on any
armtwisting, lobbying effort”
for the President. "I think
that’s an insult to most mem-
bers of the House.”

— AP Wirephoto

TOUCH OF HANDS — Vice President Gerald Ford reception for Sixth District Rep. M. Caldwell Butler in

squeezes hands of admirers greeting him at Woodrum background, member of House Judiciary Committee.

Airport in Roanoke Friday. He attended fund-raising

THE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, VaNj|aturday,

Ford Says
He’ll Not
‘Twist Arms’

HOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP) -
Vice President Gerald R. Ford
said he won’t engage in any
“arm-twisting lobbying” to
ward off President Nixon’s pos-
sible impeachment by the
House.

“I think that’s an insult to
most members of the House,”

Ford said.

At the same time, the vice
president, who maintains evi-
dence does not exist to prove
Nixon has committed any im-
peachable offense, said he will i
campaign for Republicans in
this fall’s elections on a “highly
selective” but still unspecified
basis.

Ford himself appeared
slightly confused as to what
that basis is. He told a news
conference Friday afternoon in
Roanoke, Va., that he might
well campaign for and support
Democratic candidate who had
shown support for Nixon admi-
nistration policies.

En route by plane to Hot
Springs he modified that stand
and repeated earlier statements
that there may be some Demo-
cratic candidates whose dis-
tricts he will not enter in sup-
port of their Republican oppo-
nents. “I have no plans to
campaign in person for any
Democrats,” Ford said through
a press spokesman.

Ford did campaign for Rep.
Caldwell Butler, R-Va., a mem-
ber of the House Judiciary
Committee which soon must
vote whether or not to issue a
bill of impeachment against
Nixon.

Ford told reporters he would
campaign for Butler again, no
matter how Butler votes on im-
peachment.

And he said that holds true
for any Republican House
member.

Referring to critical com-
ments by White House Press
Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler,
Ford said: “I certainly would
not call the manner in which
(the House Judiciary Com-
mittee) has operated a kang-
aroo court I think they’ve
worked very hard to do a re-
sponsible job.”

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to prevent impeachment

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president, who maintains paign m person for any Demo- D-N.J .. of the House Judiciary
evidence does not exist to pro- crats,” Ford said through a Committee has conducted the
ve JVixon has committed any P^ss spokesman. impeachment inquiry in a fair

impea chable offense, said he y— k'QXfl did campaign for Ke p. and proper way.
will campaign for Republicans ^Caldwell ButTSF, R-Va., a Referring to critical com-
Tn this fall’s elections on a g 1 e m b e r o f, J.h e House ments by White House Press
selective^ but still un- JJMgiMy_-XQillllLittee ^ wjucjT Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler,
specified basis? jsoonLiau&vq^ Ford said: “I certainly would

Ford himself appeared ^ to issue a bill of impeacHme'nT not call the manner in which
slightly confused as to what ag ainst N ixon. that committee has operated a

that basis is. He told a news , F o r d - Itn l d" r_epo r ters he kangaroo court. I think they’ve

conference Friday afternoon in ^ 2 ^_campaign for J3utler_' worked very hard to do a re-
Roanoke, Va. that he might ~lgain next fall, whether in- sponsible job.”
well campaign for and support vited or not, no matter how Ford is to spend the
some well qualified Democrat- Butler votes on impeach ment, weekend playing golf at a re-
ic candidate who had shown And he said that holds true sort hotel in Hot Springs. He
support for Nixon admonistra- for any Republican House will address the Virginia Bar

BACKS BUTLER — Vice President Gerald Ford holds a t-shirt with campaign
slogan of Rep. Caldwell Butler, right. Ford appeared in Roanoke last night at
a fund raising affair for Butler and William Wampler. Butler represents
Virginia's Sixth District and Wampler the Ninth. (AP Wirephoto)

HOT SPRINGS (AP) -^Vice
President _G erald R . Ford said'
he won’t engage in any “arm-
twisting lobbying” to ward off
President Nixon’s possible im-
peachment by the House.

“1 think that’s an insult to
most members of the House,”
Ford said.

En route by plane to Hot
Springs he modified that stand
and repeated earlier
statements that there may be
some Democratic candidates
whose districts he will not
enter in support of their Re-
publican opponents.

“I won’t predicate my ap-
pearance or absence in a con-
gressional district because a
person votes for or against the
President,” Ford said. "That is
a matter of serious personal
judgment.”

"I have no plans to cam-

Ford said he believes that
chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr.,

tion policies.

member.

Association tonight.

Ford Pledges Support to Butler,
Whatever His Impeachment Vote

From Page 1

blamed on congressional spending.

“We want an inflation-proof Con-
gress,” the vice president told his recep-
tion audience in urging the guests to work
for the re-election of Butler and Wampler
and, in doing so, “stand firm against bust-
ing the federal treasury.”

Ford and his party departed Woodrum
Airport at 8:10 p.m. for Hot Springs in
time to get him into the mountain-top air-
port before dark.

He will address the Virginia Bar Asso-
ciation at The Homestead tonight. Gov.
Mills E. Godwin Jr., who switched to the
GOP last year, will introduce him to sev-
eral hundred lawyers and their wives.

At the press conference before the re-
ception, Ford rejected a Washington re-
porter’s suggestion he may be “lobbying”
congressmen to build up support against
impeachment.

Ford, with a smile, said he has respect
for individual members of Congress— that
he hopes they respect him too— but if they
want his opinion “I’ll be glad to tell
them.”

The vice president declined to be
drawn into comment on several charges

surrounding the House Judiciary Commit-
tee hearing because, he said, “I’m not
going to pass judgment on day to day de-
velopments.”

Ford said also he disagrees with White
House Press Secretary Ronald L. Zieg-
ler’s comments that Rep. Peter W. Rodi-
no, D-N.J., chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, is running “a kan-
garoo court.”

The vice president said, “It’s my judg-
ment that Mr. Rodino has done his utmost
to handle the (impeachment) inquiry in a
fair and proper way.

“I certainly would not call the manner
in which that committee has operated a
kangaroo court,” Ford said. “I think
they’ve worked very hard to. do a responsi-
ble job.”

Butler, who soon will have to vote on
the impeachment resolution in the House
Judiciary Committee, flew from Washing-
ton with the vice president. There was a
heavy hail storm en route. Wampler
joined the party at Hotel Roanoke.

Also aboard the vice president’s plane
was former Gov. Linwood Holton, now as-
sistant secretary of state for congression-
al relations.

The reception grossed about $10,400
but Butler and Wampler will be lucky if
much gets into their campaign chests
since they have to pay the hotel charges,
the cost of promoting the event, the ex-
penses of the Secret Service and the vice
president’s advance men.

Party leaders in Roanoke blamed the
latter for discouraging any turnout to see
Ford. Some became annoyed.

The vice president was 38 minutes late
arriving on a flight from Washington.
Waiting was a big contingent of Secret
Service agents, Lt. Gov. John N. Dalton,
Mayor Roy L. Webber, a few local GOP
leaders and about 75 onlookers kept behind
a fence a football field length awav.

Ford closed his short talk at the recep-
tion by saying that if he were an indepen-
dent instead of a Republican he would vote
for Butler or Wampler, depending on the
district in which he lived, because they
represent fiscal responsibility in Washing-
ton at a time when excessive spending is
at the root of the nation’s economic prob-
lems.

Ford's Easy Greeting:
'Hi, Glad To See You'

From Page 1

of this legend on the sign said it
also contained the notation
“Ford” and the representation
of a screw drawn on it.

Even reporters who were
lucky enough to spot the sign
were not sure what it said-
something about impeach-
ment, they said.

There were dark rumors at
the airport that Lt. Gov. John
Dalton and his wife, Eddie, had
not been invited to ride in the
motorcade into town. Secret
Service, a Republican said.
“No room at the inn,” lie said.

It turned out, though, that
Dalton and his wife did ride in
the motorcade, along with 6th
District Rep. Caldwell Butler
and former Gov. Linwood Hol-
ton, now assistant secretary of
state for congressional rela-
tions.

Butler, and 9th District Rep.
William C. Wampler, were the
main reasons Ford was in

town— attending a $5(Kper-per-
son reception to get up some
money for campaigning this
fall.

The reception drew 208 peo-
ple and $10,400 and a pipe-
smoking Ford who was intro-
duced by Butler as being “as
pure as the driven snow on the
convent roof.”

Then, in a speech given to
tinkling glasses in the Shenan-
doah Room, Ford told a joke
about telephones and President
Nixon that he has told before
and said everybody ought to
vote for Butler and Wampler.

In addition to shaking hands
with practically everybody
who came handily into his path
and speaking at the reception,
Ford held the ritual news con-
ference and said, no, he doesn’t
think the President has com-
mitted an impeachable of-
fense.

There were some people who
were properly awed by the vice
president’s visit. These includ-
ed a veteran of the 567th AAA

Battalion, which happened to
be holding a reunion at the ho-
tel, which may or may not have
made the Secret Service anx-
ious.

“This is the first time Tve
ever seen a vice president,” the
veteran said.

He did not attend the recep-
tion, through which Ford
moved easily, again folksily,
led through the crowd by But-
ler and later joined by Wam-
pler on the rather ornate
speaking platform set up in the
Shenandoah Room.

Secret Service men, as they
usually do in the provinces,
awed a lot of people by their
operations. They awed some
people by showing handcuffs
through their coat vents when
they bent over.

In general, the vice president
came off as a nice guy, saying,
“Hi, glad to see you” to a lot of
people and looking fatherly at
the news people penned by the
rope at the airport and saying
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It's Clear Who Will Have Vice President's Campaign Backing

THE ROANOKE TIMES. Saturday, July 20, 1974

By MELVILLE CAHICO
Times Political Writer

HOT SPRINGS — Vice President Ger-
ald R. Ford said Saturday night govern-
ment and the legal profession must join
hands in guaranteeing every citizen the
right to privacy.

“We must assure citizens that their
private lives shall not become ‘rolls of
public tape’ in a computer system.” Pri-
vacy was the underlying theme in a speech
the Vice President prepared for the Vir-
ginia Bar Associations dinner which drew
900 judges, lawyers, professors and their
wives.

Ford, who has traveled over 100,000
miles since his selection by President Nix-
on to succeed Spiro Agnew, spent a relax-
ing day at the Homestead nestled in the
Allegheny Mountains.

He spent the morning on the golf
course in a foursome with three prominent
Virginia lawyers and in the afternoon re-
laxed in his suite chatting with guests.

During his remarks the Vice Presi-
dent said he has been criticized for so
much traveling with suggestions that he
( ought to stay closer to Washington.

“My answer is that my homework is
s in Hot Springs, Va. and every other place
t- in our nation where people assemble to
perfect our society;; Ford related.

Ford was introduced by Gov. Mills E
Godwin Jr., a former conservative Demo-
crat who switched to Ford's party last
year and attracted national political atten-
tion.

The governor praised Ford as a vice
peresident who “represents the best quali-
ties we look for in public servants and ra-
diates a sense of stability which we so
badly need.”

“It is comforting to many of us to
know that if unfolding events were to cast
him in an even larger role the nation
would be in good hands,” Godwin de-
clared.

His audience also included Assistant
Secretary of State A. Linwood Holton, the
first Republican governor of Virginia, Lt.
Gov. John N. Dalton and Attorney General
Andrew P. Miller.

Ford is chairman of the Domestic
Council Committee on the Right of Priva-
cy which was created by President Nixon
in an effort to balance the right of privacy
vvith. as he described it, M the increasing
claims by government and business to
gather and use information about people.”
Ford had told reporters previously that he
was interested in the problem when he
was being investigated by both houses of

Congress following his nomination as Vice
President in the wake of Agnew’s resigna-
tion.

Ford told the lawyers that members
of the cabinet and others on the privacy
committee are now proposing that the ex-
ecutive department establish specific pro-
cedures and government-wise guidelines
to safeguard privacy. These include, he
said, a restriction on government agencies
establishing automated information sys-
tems without adhering to guidelines aimed
at protecting the confidentiality of sensi-
tive information about individuals.

The Vice President flew into this, re-
sort Friday night after a fund-raising re-
ception in Roanoke for Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler and Rep. William C. Wampler.

He said there, as he has dozens of oth-
er times in his extensive travels on behalf
of the GOP, that he sees no grounds to jus-
tify impeachment of President Nixon, but
honeycombed through his prepared texV
distributed before the dinner, Ford ^
seemed, to be spelling out moral standards
he sets for the President or anyone else in
government or law.

“The law retains its dynamic essence
because no American is above the require-
ments of the law,” Ford declared at one
ooint

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Staunton, Va„ Leader, Monday, July 22, 1974 3

Rep. Wampler to participate in conference

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep.
William Wampler, the ranking
Republican member of the
House Agriculture Committee
and Congressman from
Virginia's Ninth District will
participate in U.S. Rep. Butler’s
Farm Conference Aug. 5 at the
McCormick Farm near Steeles
Tavern.

Rep. Wampler, one of the most
knowledgable legislators in the
field of agri-business, will join
Rep. Butler, U.S. Rep. J. Ken-
neth Robinson and an official of
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture at the event which
begins at 10 a.m. and concludes
with a free barbeque luncheon at
noon.

Rep. Butler sail he was
“extremely pleased that a
person with as extensive
background in farm and
agriculture-business legislation
as Bill Wampler will be present
at our conference”.

Rep. Wampler, who resides in
Bristol, was_ first elected to

Congress in 1952 and following a
defeat in 1954 was re-elected in
1966 and every term thereafter.

Today’s Giveaway

Three 9-week-old male boxed
trained kittens. Telephone 885-
2088.

THE NEWS-VIRGiNIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Monday, July 22, 1974

. Wampler
ill Attend

Conference

WASHINGTON, D. C.
(Special) - Sixth District Rep.

M. Caldwell Butler has an-
nounced that Rep. William
Wampler will participate in the
Farm Conference Mr. Butler
will sponsor Aug. 5 at the Mc-
Cormick Farm near Steeles
Tavern, Va. .

Mr. Wampler, from Virginia s
Ninth District, is the ranking
Republican member of the
House Agriculture Committee.

He will join Mr. Butler,
Seventh District Rep. J . Kenneth
Robinson and an official of the
U. S. Department of Commerce
at the event which begins at 10
a.m. and concludes with a free
barbeque luncheon at 12 noon.

Also participating in the
conference as resource per-
sonnel will be representatives of
the Soil Conservation Service,
Farmer Home Administration,
State Department of Agriculture
and Commerce, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service, Occupational Safety
and Health Administration and
Virginia Tech’s Agriculture
Extension Service and the
Agriculture Experiment Station.
Each will be available for in-
dividual consultation and
discussion.

Funding for public television

,^^. r . es ! d f, nt Nixon has accepted a com-

President Nixon has accented a

vnrai’ t ned down an earlier mea-
f f <°u lon £' ran ?e funding despite tht
fact that public television W™ the

fr. naa an but blown him out of the wa-

Whii^H P ° SItlon as ,iai son between the

p?pH ^° US ?u and the inda stry was weak!
ened, almost beyond repair.

He finally persuaded the President in
endorse the funding scheme! thereby "?

nf ?h S ° Wn reputatlon a nd indirectly hff.
ing the reputation of the White House.

For the very purpose of a guaranteed

mwim

shield from governmental interference? 3

GOLFERS — Vice President Gerald R.

i° r f n- ? ft ’ and attorne y John Battle
Jr. of Richmond took advantage of the

0nif k !f nC lt gO T O T d weather f or a game of
golf at The Homestead’s, course. The

Vice President was in Hot Springs over
the wekend to address the Virginia Bar
Association. Third man in the picture is
unidentified. (John M. Gazzola Photo)

Ford Has ‘Low-Key’ Weekend
At Bar Association Meeting

K , , Tnkn 1\i( r 1 i _ » A ccnni Q ti nn ea-winrr rtnifnt'nmnMf „ .

By John M. Gazzola Jr.

HOT SPRINGS - Vice
President Gerald R. Ford spent
what most observers considered
a low-key long weekend at The
Homestead, with relaxation
taking precedence over political
maneuvering.

Friday the Vice President
touched down at Roanoke’s
'Woodrum Field at 5:35 p.m.,
where he greeted a small crowd
of well-wishers and then went to
Hotel Roanoke for a $100 a
couple fund-raising reception for
6th District Congressman M.
Caldwell Butler and 9th District
Congressman William C.
Wampler, which was attended
w 206 couples.

Later, at about 9 p.m., the
Vice President arrived by
helicopter at Ingalls Field,
where he was taken by
limousine to The Homestead.

Saturday morning the Vice
President played 18 holes of golf
on The Homestead Course with a
foursome of three prominent
Virginia lawyers, one of whom
was John Battle Jr., son of the
former Virginia governor.

Saturday night the Vice
President delivered a banquet
address to the Virginia Bar

Association, saying government
and the law profession must join
hands in guaranteeing every
citizen a right to privacy.

The Vice President was in-
troduced at the banquet by
Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr.,
who called Ford a vice president
\ who represents the best qualities
\we look for in public servants
land one who radiates a sense of
stability we so badly need.

Also at the banquet, which was
attended by almost 1,000, were
Assistant Secretary of State A.
Jnwood Holton, Lt. Governor
John N. Dalton, Attorney
General Andrew P. Miller, 3rd
District Congressman David E.
Satterfield, 1st District
Congressman Thomas N.

Downing, 6th District

Cimgiies^ man MT^Tal'dwell
Butler ancTChafTenToBBTson-in-
Taw~of the late former President
Lyndon B. Johnson.

Sunday morning the Vice
President tackled the Cascades

Course before leaving in late
afternoon for Washington, D. C.
No report was noted on his
Cascades score but he had five
or six pars Saturday over The
Homestead Course, and though
scoring a nine on the par five •
fourth hole, finished the round in j
the high 80’s.

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IT j * . 7/2 1/ r/

r ord visit may affect
Butler’s ouster vote

Rv PRFin R ADX7TC .. .

By FRED BARNES
Washington Star-News
HOT SPRINGS - Rep. M
Caldwell Butler, R-y a ., discov-
ered to his delight several
weeks ago that Vice President
Ford was scheduled to come to
this mountain resort for a
speech and a few rounds of
golf.

Perhaps Ford would stop in
nearby Roanoke and address a
Butler fundraising rally,
thought Butler, who has gained
prominence recently as a Re-
publican member of the House
Judiciary Committee who is
undecided on whether to vote
for the impeachment of Presi-
dent Nixon.

Butler wrote a brief letter to
the vice president, and Ford
readily agreed to appear in the
■congressmen’s behalf in Roa-
noke on Friday.

Because the committee was
expected to vote on the im-
peachment issue in a week or
so, the Ford visit took on con-
siderable importance. It also
made Butler politically indebt- .
ed to Ford, the party’s most

An article of analysis and
opinion intended to help inter-
pret and clarify the news.

sought-after campaign speak-

As a result of such political
debts, the vice president is the
administration official with the
greatest clout in getting the
committee’s 17 Republicans to
support Nixon.

Ford is a vigorous backer of
the President in the impeach-
ment struggle, having declared
repeatedly that there is not
enough evidence against Nixon
to warrant his impeachment.

In recent weeks, Ford has
committed himself to make
campaign appearances for four
of the wavering Republicans,
including Butler.

Ford has said that his ap-
pearances were not connected
with the impeachment battle
and that he did not plan to wage
‘an arm-twisting lobbying ef-
fort aimed at convincing Re-
publicans to stick with Nixon.

The most he will do, Ford

added, is express his view on
impeachment if any committee
member is not sure where he
stands on the issue.

Although Butler did not ask
him for this view, the congress-
man got it anyway on Friday.
As Butler stood near Ford at a
news conference, the vice pres-
ident told newsmen: “Natur-
allly I would hope that a
Republican as well as a dis-

against impeachment.”

Ford asserted that he intend-
ed to be “highly selective” in
scheduling campaign appear-
ances and may even stay out of
some districts where the Dem-
ocratic candidate is a good one
Observers were astonished at
this statement, since the vice
president had not previously
been “selective” - among his
party’s candidates, and had
never supported a Democrat. '

The first Kiwanis Club was
organized in Detroit in 1915,
The name is from an Indiar
word, “Kee-wanis,” meaning
‘ ‘ to make oneself knn*~

$10,000 paifi lHl ,
to eat with Ford

The Republican fund-raising dinner attended by Vice Presi-
dent Gerald Ford Friday night at Hotel Roanoke grossed slightly
more than $10,000.

But this figure will be cut sharply— perhaps by one-half—
when all the bills have been toted up, according to local party
officials.

The money netted from the affair will be divided 50-50 be-
tween Reps. Caldwell Butler of the 6th Congressional District
and William C. Wampler of the 9th.

More than 200 paid $50 per person to attend the Ford affair. In
addition, 70 press people attended as guests of the Republicans.

Other expenses incurred by the sponsoring Republicans in-
cluded paying for advance and Secret Service personnel, many of
whom stayed at Hotel Roanoke for three days.

While they were here the third floor of the hotel was blocked
'^‘ofTtor security reasons, with only two maids and two mainte-
nance men allowed there.

Quarters were set aside for Ford and his party in case he
^wanted to stay in Roanoke Friday night. The vice presidential
group, however, left for Hot Springs shortly after 8 p.m. where he
spoke to the Virginia Bar Association Saturday night.

While none of the Republican officials here said so, it appear-
ed almost certain that the vice president would be asked to come
back to the 6th— and perhaps go to the 9th— during this fall’s con-
gressional campaigns.

Ford said he was going to campaign for “selected Republi-
cans” this fall and emphasized strongly that he’d like to work for
Butler if asked.

The vice president said he^ll be willing to campaign for But-
ler even if he votes for the impeachment of President Nixon. But-
ler is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, which is now
’involved in impeachment proceedings.

Garrison: Rookie
Replaces Star in
Last of the Ninth

By William Greider

Washington Post Staff Writer

Samuel Alexander Garri-
son III, who prefers plain
Sam, was the rookie step-
ping up to pinch hit in the
last of the ninth, subbing
for the flashy player from
Chicago who got benched.

“The turn of events in
the past week has, been lit-
erally mind-boggling/’ Gar-
rison sighed, still a bit awed
by his opportunity.

Sam Garrison was at the
i plate before the House Judi-
ciary Committee, directed
by the comipittee’s 17 Re-
publicans to present the
“minority view” of the case
against President Nixon. Sit-
ting next to him was Albert
E. Jenner Jr., the chief min-
ority counsel who got bump-
ed becauseJenner thinks
the case against Mr. Nixon
is strong enough to impeach
him.

“This has been a rough
weekend,” said Garrison,
who was given the assign-
ment abruptly last Tuesday.
“I’ve had three hours sleep
in the last two days.”

He is 32-years-old, a former
prosecutor from Roanoke, an
anonymous staff lawyer on
Capitol Hill. This was his
moment.

So, perhaps to relieve the
tension, Sam Garrsion passed
copies of a comic strip to
Jenner and the other lawyers
assembled at the counsel table.
It was the Doonesbury strip
from yesterday’s newspaper,
lampooning the Judiciary
Committee for its partisan
rhubarbs. “I think no matter
how grave the matter being
discussed,” Garrison explained
amiably, “there’s always room
for a little good humor.”

Then, after the news peo-
ple were shooed out of the
committee room, Garrison
presented his 41-page argu-
ment for acquittal. Actually,
it was more like a general
legal brief on the ambigui-
ties of evidence, particular-
ly in impeachment cases. He
urged the House members
to play the role of “prudent
prosecutors”— -resisting im-
peachment if the case does
not seem overwhelming to
them.

By all accounts, Sam Garri-
son did not exactly hit a
home run. But his perform-

ance satisfied the senior Re-
publicans who wanted some-
one, for appearance’s sake
if nothing else, to argue the
soft spots in the Judiciary
Committee’s evidence.

Beyond the facts, Garrison
also invoked the broader po-
litical considerations which
are now part of the Presi-
dent’s defense case. “The
question,” Garrison said, “is
whether the public interest
would better be served or
not served by removal of the
President.” '

As it happens, 1 a w~y e r
Garrison came to the Nixon
case directly from the staff
of another Republican in
trouble — Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew. He was the
Vice President’s staff coun-
sel and legislative liaison
when he heard on his car
radio one night last summer
that his boss was under in-
vestigation for bribery.

“It was a personal pnd na-
tional tragedy that I was
able to observe at somewhat
closerAlistance than others,”
said Garrison, who had no
role in the Agnew defense , '
despite the title of counsel.
“It wasn't my first brush
with tragedy, having been a
prosecuto 1 ’ for five years.

“Perhaps my previous ex-
perience enabled me to cope
better ^ with' that. I became
fairly well acquainted with
the variety of human fail-
ings, especially among those
who don’t seem to have any.”

Might that perspective ap-
ply as well to his new
“client,” the President?

“From time to time,” Gar-
rison conceded, “I might feel
a little shocked at some
revelations Yet often those
things that appear to be
true on first glance turn
out not to be so on closer
examination ” * - •< .

“A primitive Republican,”
says one fellow GOP mem-
ber from southwest Virginia.
“Honest, conscientious, out-
standing, straight arrow,”
says another. \

Rep. M. Caldwell Butler,
the freshman Republican
congressman from Roanoke,
a Judiciary member himself,
recalls:

“When I was first in-
volved in politics, Sam Gar-
rison was leading the pledge

Tuesday, July 23, 1974 THE WASHINGTON POST

Associated Press

Sam Garrison, background, spokesman for committee minority, and Albert Jenner.

of allegiance at the Lincoln
Day dinners as a young Boy
Scout. His background is
such that he can put his
heart into this presenta-
tion.”

One important Republican
on the committee was not
overly impressed with it.
“He seems very young,” the
congressman said. “You
can’t put him in the same
league with some of the
others like St. Clair” (James
D. St. Clair, the White
House defense lawyer).

Garrison grew up in Roa-
noke, went through law
school at the University of
Virginia and signed on im-
mediately afterwards as an
assistant commonwealth’s at-
torney in his hometown. In
1969, he won election to his

own term as prosecutor, but
resigned in the spying of
1971 to join the House Judi-
ciary staff, recruited by Roa-
noke’s former ’congressman,,
Richard Poff.

When Poff left Congress
a year later to serve on the
Virginia ^Supreme Court,
Garrison found a spot with
Agnew and handled political
briefings for the Vice Presi-
dent during the 1 ! 972 cam-
paign.

“I wouldn’t want to por-
tray myself as any close ad-
viser,” he said. “I was the
freshman, the newest fella
around.”

After the election, he
moved to the counsel’s job
which mostly meant han-
dling staff 'legal questions—

not Agnew’s personal trou-
bles. Garrison stayed on un-
til the sorry ending,, then
heard about an opening on
the Republican staff at Ju-
diciary.

Actually, he was the first
Republican lawyer hired for
the impeachment inquiry
last November and set about
recruiting a staff as chief
counsel. Among others, he
hired Jack Kennahan, the
former commonwealth’s at-
torney from Alexandria.

Then the “stars” came in
and Garrison had to take a
back seat, The Democrats .
hired John Doar as chief
counsel and the Republi-
cans, looking for a big-name
lawyer, chose Jenner from
Chicago.

?<f

'iafc; ■dr Virs,nia £ w

Is Announced

U- S. Rep. William
Wampler, the ranking
Republican member of the
House Agriculture Com-
mittee and congressman
from Virginia’s 9th District,
will participate in U. S. Rep.
Caldwell Butler’s Farm
Conference Aug. 5 at the
McCormick Farm near
Steeles Tavern.

Wampler will join Butler
U. S. Rep. j. Kenneth
Robinson and an official of
the U. S. Department of [
Agriculture at the event
which begins at 10 a.m. and
concludes with a free bar-
becue luncheon at noon.

6a As

Butler says issue
appears resolved

„,, 0 W a shingt° n Bureau
WASHEVGTON _ House Ju .
diciaiy Committee Republican
member Caldwell Butler of
Roanoke said this noon he be-
heves^ the Supreme Court deci-
sion apparently resolves” the
committee access,
to the White House tapes’it has
subpoenaed.

„~ Bu J I ? r indicated he might fa-
vor delay m the committee im-
r ea ^ ent debate scheduled
r<) f f °f r 7:30 P-m. today under cer-
tain curcumstances, such as a
promise by the President fm*
mediately to comply.

j r (C !?f™ Peter W. Rodin
Jr. said, however, that th,
committee will g0 ahead witi

articlef f° debate and vote or
f n. f im P ea chemnt with
out waiting for the tapes Nixon
has-been ordered to surren-

Butler said he wanted to wait
fnr Cad , the court de cision be-
ment g 3 detai,ed com *

-nnlfp id he didn’t want to be a
popoff ’ and “I want to know
what the White House reaction
is before I’ll know what the

committee should do.”

th^ U * der sa ‘ d ’ ® ur access to
resoft ” apparentI y ha s been

SSTS; meaning that he be-

hf. v f a die committee now can
get the tapes it has sought.

Some members of the* com-
mittee have argued that the
Presidents failure to comply
with commutee subpoenas is,
fense SC f ’ 30 ,m P eac hable of-

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep.
Lawrence J. Hogan of Mary-
land, a Republican member of
the House Judiciary Commit-
tee, announced Tuesday he
will vote to impeach President
Nixon.

“1 have come to the con-
clusion that Richard M. Nixon
has, beyond a reasonable
doubt, committed impeachable
offenses which, in my
judgment, are of sufficient
magnitude that he should be
removed from office,” Hogan
said.

“The evidence convinces me
that my Resident has lied re-

peatedly,” he added.

Hogan, who is running for
governor of Maryland, made
his announcement the day
before committee debate was
scheduled on proposed articles
of impeachment.

Asked why he was declaring
his position in advance, he
replied the debate would be
“pro forma.”

“By tomorrow every person
on the committee, so far as I’m
concerned, will have made up
his mind,” Hogan said.

Five GOP Vot^A

Hogan predicted that at

least five of the 17 Republicans
on the committee will vote for
impeachment He said if the
full House studies the evidence
as carefully as he did it also
will vote to impeach President
Nixon.

Hogan said that when word
got out of his impending an-
nouncement he received two
calls from the White House
which he did not return.

He said he did talk to Vice
President Gerald R. Ford, who
also called him. Ford did not
ask him what decision he had
made, said Hogan, but he did
question announcing it in ad-

vance of the debate.

Presidential counselor Dean
Burch, after consulting with
White House staff chief Alex-
ander M. Haig Jr. in San
Clemente, summoned
newsmen Tuesday to denounce
Hogan.

Burch's Charge

Burch charged that Hogan’s
“ambition to be governor of
Maryland ... weighed heavily”
on him and that he acted
“from what he views as his
political interest.”

Burch accused Hogan of us-
mg his position on the commit-

ment

tee “to gain name recognition”
for his gubernatorial campaign
and declared “this is not going
to be well received by Re-
publicans in the state of Mary-
land ... it could very well go
haywire on him.”

While acknowledging that
Hogan’s announcement dam-
aged White House hopes of
blocking committee approval
of an impeachment resolution,
Burch said, “1 do not suggest it
will result in any landslide or
rush to judgment.”

Hogan said his decision was
made withm the last few days
See RepuJican, A-12, Col. 1

Republican Plans
Impeachment Vote

Continued From A*1

but “the real body blow was
when the President released
his tapes and I read in his own
words things that shocked
me.”

In his statement, he said,
“Those who oppose impeach-
ment say it would weaken the
presidency. In my view, if we
do not impeach the President
after all that he has done, we
would be weakening the presi-
dency even more.”

Hogan generally was not
listed among those committee
Republicans most likely to sup-
port impeachment.

Nearly all of the 21 Demo-
crats are regarded as virtually
certain to support impeach-
ment while 11 Republicans usu-
ally are listed as hard-line vot-
ers against. Hogan is the first
member to formally announce
his vote although others have
indicated how they would vote.

Majority Required

A majority of the 38-member
committee is required to rec-
ommend impeachment.

Meanwhile, House Re-
publican Leader John J.
Rhodes of Arizona told Senate
Republicans at a closed session
that the House impeachment
situation is fluid at present. “1
said last week was favorable,
this week is less favorable and
' next week who knows?”
Rhodes said he told the sena-
tors.

Of Hogan’s action, Rhodes
said, “Something like this is
bound to be more harmful to
the President than helpful.”

Among other comments
from congressmen, Rep. John
B. An f derson, R-Ill., said
Hogan’s decision “is going to
have some effect. The tide is
going in this direction.’

Rep. Walter Flowers, D-Ala.,
a Judiciary Committee mem-
ber, said “it’ll make it a little
easier” for Republicans to vote
for impeachment.

Rep. L.A. "Skip” Bafalis,
RFla., said he looked at the
timing of Hogan’s announce-
ment as being “terribly politi-
cal.”

Rep. Dan Kuykendall,
RTenn., said: “1 think it’s a
good way to run for governor
of Maryland — if he wins. If he
loses, it’s a miserable way.”

Rabbi Baruch Korff, head of
the National Citizens Commit-
tee for Fairness to the Presi-
dent made public a letter he
sent to Hogan saying that
Hogan once was an admirable
young politician. "And now
you have joined the wolf pack,
running with their frenzy and
echoing their howls against the
President,” Korff said.

★ ★ ★

The only Democrats re-
garded as possible votes
against impeachment are Reps.
Walter Flowers of Alabama
and James R. Mann of South
Carolina.

Republicans regarded as
leaning toward impeachment
are Reps. William Cohen of
Maine, Hamilton Fish Jr. of
New York, M. Caldwell Butler
of Virginia and Tom Railsback
of Illinois.

Considered possible, but far
less likely Republican votes for
impeachment are Reps. Robert
McCiory of Illinois and Henry
P. Smith of New York.

The committee annnounced
that the impeachment debate,
to be aired on nationwide radio
and television, would begin at
7:30 p.m. FDT today. The com-
mittee continued on Tuesday
debating procedural questions.

Likeliest Scenario

The likeliest scenario for the
debate is that it will open with
introduction of a resolution de-
claring that it is the
committee’s recommendation
to the House that Nixon should
be impeached.

2 Staunton, Va., Leader, Wednesday,

JUiy 24 ,'n1974

Rep. Butler criticizes promotion

WASHINGTON ,AP)_R„ to lo Join the Impeachment

voters.

WASHINGTON (AP)-Ren.
Caldwell Butler, R-Va., says the
promotion of Sam Garrison over
Albert Jenner as chief minority
counsel was “a shabby way to
treat a man, to kick him when he
is down.”

He referred to criticism of
Jenner by House Judiciary
Committee Republicans who
said Jenner let them down by
Agreeing with John Doar, chief
committee counsel, in his pre-
sentation of evidence and in his
advocacy of impeachment of
President Nixon.

But Butler agreed it might
make it easier for some mem-

Butler opposes
Garrison's job

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commonwealth', attorney of

Roanoke, went to Washington to

£ k S u Pr0,8 9« o f former Rep

sohd“r d H ' ^ 0nd “ ra,ed »* a
solid conservative.

Ru'ler said Tuesday he
didn t believe many committee
members would be swayed by
R P' Larr y Hogan, R-Md., who

vote 0 fnr ed TUeSday he would 0
is !. m impeachment. Hogan

and r ,?!!? 1 the committee

of Maryland ‘'° r 8 ° Vernor

But But, er agreed it might

K? .“.“ft””™* «2£

. piuiiiotea^rnson from dipu- 'make it easier gnt

fy - minority counsel to bers to mL /b some mem '

-^CU nority couns el. voters J H the im P eac hment

-,h? t,e o r r i ^ Sid ! redon c_of you’re looking for com.

t 11 Slirp ho ’> IS. . .

eight or nine possible Re-
ment VOt6S f ° r im P ea ch-

clear nn b,n S if' eSent role is not
wear, but it appears he will

fort tf’ii , n s tor com-
fort, It 11 sure be there,” Butler

He added that Hogan s an-
nouncement came as no sur
Pnse to him. ur '

Jenner and Garrison Confer Prior to Start of Committee Hearing

Republicans on House Panel
Name Garrison Top Counsel

From Page 13

tial lawyer James St. Clair, members
were generally complimentary.

, . Said Roanoke Rep. M. Caldwell But-
Jer, R-Va., “it was factual, directed to the
/ evidence.”

/ Butler goes back a way with Garrison,

/ who was still a youngster when Butler and
/ his former law partner, Ex-Gov. Linwood
/ Holton, were rebuilding the Republican
party in Southwest Virginia.

I “When I was first involved in politics,

Sam Garrison was leading the pledge of al-
legiance at the Lincoln Day dinners as a
young Boy Scout,” said Butler, meaning
that Garrison is as partisan a Republican j
as any around. •

— — Garrison, a native of Roanoke, was
born in 1942, and won bachelor of science
and law degrees from the, University of
Virginia before being appointed assistant
commonwealth’s attorney in Roanoke in
1966.

In 1969, he won election to the com-
monwealth’s attorney’s post but resigned
less than two years later to work with then
6th District Rep. Richard Poff , who was a
member of the House Judiciary Commit-
tee. Garrison went to work for the com-
mittee as one of its lawyers and laborored
in relative obscurity until Poff left Wash-
ington in an agonizing brouhaha over a
possible appointment to the U.S. Supreme
Court.

When Poff threw in the towel on the
nomination, Garrison cast about for a bet-
ter job and landed with Vice President Spi-
ro T. Agnew. He worked on political
matters for Agnew during the 1972 cam-

paign but little more than a year later he
was jobless again. This time his boss had
resigned in a kickback scandal, and Garri-
soh called it “a personal and national trag-
edy.”

Garrison again looked to the Judiciary
Committee and found work. In fact, Garri-
son was one of the first lawyers hired by
the minority side for the impeachment
inquiry.

Then Jenner and Doar, both Republi-
cans, were hired for the two top posts and
Garrison took a back seat for the next sev-
en months. It all changed this week, and
Garrison now has definite ideas on the re-
maining few days of the committee's deli-
berations— and on his own role in them.

First, he rejects the idea that he is
pleading the President's case.

“I think there’s a great distortion that
I’m representing the President. That’s not
the case in the past and it’s not the case

now. «

“I represent their (the Republicans )
views and if that’s the same as the Presi-
dent’s so be it. And if not, well, so be that,
too,” Garrison said Tuesday.

And Garrison said he doesn’t care
whether St. Clair is present for the com-
mittee deliberations on the articles of im-
peachment.

“I don’t think his presence will have
any effect on my role. If he were here,
he’d be doing his job representing his
client, and I’d be representing mine.”

But when it’s all over, Garrison says,
he’ll have had enough of Washington.

“I intend to go back to Roanoke and
probably practice law for a while,” says
Garrison.

?/ V
/ / '

Committee

promotion
under fire

WASHINGTON - R e n M
Caldwell Butler, R-Va„ said

ffl° t,0n of R oanoker
sam Garrison over Albert Jen-

was “a £hh min0rity counsel
was a shabby way to treat a

a.--° kick him whence is

He referred to criticism of
^RenJhr Judiciary Commit-
rll i f p “ bI,cans who said Jen-
ne f. ,e t f *hem down by agreeing
with John Doar, chief S

SSir 6 " 1 ’""" 1 «

Butler, a member of the
committee, did not take part in
the caucus at which Republi-
cans promoted Garrison from
deputy minority counsel to
chief minority counsel.

Jenner’s present role is not
clear, but it appears he will re-
as an associate counsel to

Butler said he didn’t believe
committee members
would be swayed by Rep. Larry
* og * n ’ R'Md'. who announced
yesterday he would vote for
impeachment. Hogan is a
member of the committee and

Maryland. 3 te ^ g ° Vernor of
But Butler agreed it might
3, easier for some mem-
j^ 0 join the impeachment

•tn? U re L°° king for com-
it 11 sure be there,” Butler

added that Hogan’s aiv
:ement came as no sur
vo him.

By JACK BETTS
Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON-Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler, R-Va., Tuesday blasted the
naming of former Roanoke prosecutor
Sam Garrison as chief minority counsel
over Albert Jenner as a — tactless thing to
do to a man when he is down.”

Butler, a member of the impeachment
panel, said he did not take part in the Re-
publican caucus where Garrison, formerly
deputy minority counsel to Jenner, was
officially designated chief minority coun-
sel.

Jenner’s role— and title— is somewhat

unclear, but it appears he will remain
employed by the committee as an asso-
ciate counsel to chief committee counsel
John Doar.

Doar, Jenner and . Garrison are all
Republicans.

Butler said, “It was a shabby way to
treat a man, to kick him when he is
down.”

He referred to criticisms of Jenner
from committee Republicans who claimed
he let them down by agreeing witjh Doar in
his presentations of evidence and in his ad-
vocacy of impeachment of President Nix-
on. . j

Butler, considered one of ei|ht or nine

Upsets Butler

possible Republican votes for impeach-
ment, also said he didn’t believe many
members would be swayed by Rep. Larry
Hogan, R-Md., who announced Tuesday he
would vote to impeach the President.

Hogan, also a member of the commit-
tee and a candidate for governor of Mary-
land, said he was convinced the President
should be impeached and removed from
office.

“I’ve got a lot of respect for Larry Ho-
gan, but I don’t think he’ll sway a lot of
votes. Certainly, not like dominoes falling
in line/’ he said.

But he admitted it might make it eas-

ier for some member to join the impeach- -
ment voters.

“If you’re looking for comfort, it’ll
sure be there,” Butler said.

Butler said he had gotten to know Ho-
gan fairly well since sitting beside him at
the impeachment meetings, so the an-
nouncement came as no surprise to him.

“I think everyone pretty well had that
one figured out, didn’t they?”

It's Been a Big Week for Roanoke

Native Samuel Garrison III —

Page 13.

Impeachment Gains a GOP Vote

WASHINGTON (AP)— Rep. Law-
rence J. Hogan of Maryland, a Republican
member of the House Judiciary Commit-
tee, announced Tuesday he will vote to
impeach President Nixon.

' * have come to the conclusion that
Richard M. Nixon has, beyond a reasona-
ble doubt, committed impeachable offen-
ses which, in my judgment, are of
sufficient magnitude that he should be re-
moved from office,” Hogan said.

‘‘The evidence convinces me that my
president has lied repeatedly,” he added.

Hogan, who is running for governor of
Maryland, made his announcement the
day before committee debate was sched-
uled on proposed articles of impeachment.

Asked why he was declaring his posi-
tion in advance, he replied the debate
would be “pro forma.”

“By tomorrow every person on the
committee, so far as I’m concerned, will
have made up his mind,” Hogan said.

Hogan predicted that at least five of
the 17 Republicans on the committee will
vote for impeachment. He said if the full
House studies the evidence as carefully as

he did it also will vote to impeach Presi-
dent Nixon.

Hogan said that when word got out of
his impending announcement he received
two calls from the White House which he
did not return.

• He sa ‘d he did talk to Vice President
Gerald R. Ford, who also called him. Ford
did not ask him what decision he had
made, said Hogan, but he did question an-
nouncing it in advance of the debate.

White House spokesmen had no com-
ment on the announcement.

Hogan said his decision was made
within the last few days but “the real body
blow was when the President released his
tapes and I read in his own words things v
that shocked me.”

In his statement, he said, “Those who
oppose impeachment say it would weaken
the presidency. In my view, if we do not
impeach the President after all that he has
done, we would be weakening the presi-
dency even more.”

Hogan generally was not listed among
those committee Republicans most likely
to support impeachment.

Nearly all of the 21 Democrats are
regarded as virtually certain to support
impeachment while II Republicans usual-
ly are listed as hard-line voters against.
Hogan is the first member to formally an-
nounce his vote although others have indi-
cated how they would vote.

The only Democrats regarded as pos-
sible votes against impeachment are
Reps. Walter Flowers of Alabama and
James R. Mann of South Carolina.

The likeliest scenario for the debate is
that it will open with introduction of a res-
olution declaring that it is the committee’s
recommendation to the House that Nixon
should be impeached.

Then would come first phase of the
debate, with each of the 38 committee
members having 15 minutes to talk. The
resolution may be tabled without a vote
and then the committee will turn to debate
on individual articles of impeachment.

\ The Democrats reportedly were work-
Repubhcans regarded as leaning to- >"g on three proposed articles of imoeach-

rnhil 'X aChn r f, re 5 eps - William !™; nt based u Pon the presentation ^nade
Cohen of Maine, Hamilton Fish Jr. of New ^ ast week by John Doar, chief counsel to
York, i M^ Caldwell Butler of Virginia and tb e impeachment inquiry.

Tom Railsback of Illinois: /_ The three articles would charge the

sklent with

Considered possible, but far less likely
Republican votes for impeachment are
Reps. Robert McClory of Illinois and Hen-
ry P. Smith of New York.

The committee continued on Tuesday
debating procedural questions with the
starting time for the broadcast impeach-
ment debate set for 7:30 p.m. today.

r» . .. — — numu encage me

President with obstructing justice in the
Watergate investigation, with contempt of
Congress for his refusal to obey commit-
tee subpoenas and abuse of power for his
alleged role in surveillance activities as
well as attempts to make the Internal
Revenue Service more politically respon-

Committee members also will have an
See Page 2, Col. 5

Rep. Butler aids with draft

From Page One

Butler told a reporter. “We
just want to make sure that
we’ve got an impeachment res-
olution that is not defective.”
Butler’s group is known to be
working on two general arti-
cles of impeachment, one deal-,
ing with abuse of power and the
other with obstruction of jus-
tice.

The meeting came on the eve

of the committee’s historic de-
bate on the articles of impeach-
ment, which will be carried
live on television and radio.

The meetings in the first im-
peachment proceeding against
a president* in 107 years may
continue through the weekend
as members debate and vote on
articles culled from a proposed
list of 29 charges.

The ABC-TV network will air
tonight’s session and coverage

Washington Bureau
and Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler, R-Va., and
several other House Judiciary
Committee Republicans and
Democrats have been meeting
in a series of unpublicized ses-
sions to try to draft articles of
impeachment they all could
approve when the committee,
votes on a resolution to im-
peach the President.

The first debate on the arti-
cles will be held tonight at 7:30.

Butler confirmed that he was
meeting with several unnamed
members to “put something
together that frames the ques-
tions correctly.”

He said the meetings were
necessary because the pro-
posed articles of impeachment
drafted by committee counsel
John Doar and several Demo-
cratic members of the commit-
tee were “poorly written.”

Also involved in the discus-
sions are Republican Reps.
Thomas Railsback of Illinois,
William Cohen of Maine and
Hamilton Fish of New York.
The group began meeting yes-
terday.

It was also learned that at
least two Democrats, Reps.
James Mann of South Carolina
and Walter Flowers of Ala-
bama, were involved in the dis-
cussion.

The group met again today in
Railsback’s office in an at-
tempt to further refine articles^
that could be supported by the
more conservative members of
the Judiciary Committee.

“This doesn’t commit me to
voting for the resolutions,”

will rotate among the other
< networks as the meetings con-
tinue.

The Judiciary Committee
has been taking evidence for 11
weeks and is expected to pro-
duce a resolution of impeach-
ment charging the President
with high crimes and misde-
meanors in the conduct of his
office.

Preliminary estimates of the
committee voting are that the
articles will pass by a mini-
mum of 26 to 12, including all 21
Democrats and five or more
Republicans, up to a maximum
of 30 for and a minimum of
eight against impeachment.

Rep. Lawrence Hogan, R-
Md., already has said he will
vote for at least one of the arti-
cles. He said he was convinced
the President not only should
be impeached but should be re-
moved from office.

Hogan’s announcement trig-
gered a prediction by one GOP
member that as many as seven
of the 17 committee Republi-
cans may end up calling for
; Nixon’s impeachment. Hogan,
himself, said in an interview
Tuesday night that he expected
eight Republicans to vote for
impeachment. All 21 Democrats
;are believed ready to vote for

'at least one article of impeach-
ment.

Rep. John B. Anderson of Il-
linois, the third-ranking Re-
publican in the House, said, “It
seems to me quite obvious that
Mr. Hogan’s statement is con-
vincing evidence that the com-
mittee is disposed to vote one
or more articles and I would
gather that the House would
follow suit, from what I hear in
the corridors.”

One southerner said after the
Hogan announcement, “This
had a profound psychological
impact. Many Republicans who
were not on anybody’s list for
impeachment were talking for
the first time today about their
votes for it as being possible or
probable.”

Hogan, a candidate for gover-
nor of Maryland, said at a
packed news conference, that
after examining the evidence
before the Judiciary Com-
mittee, he is convinced Nixon
had committed impeachable of-
fenses and should be removed
from office.

“The evidence convinces me
that my President has lied re-
peatedly, deceiving public offi-
cials and the American
people,” said Hogan, a political
conservative and former FBI

hmMmm

Associated Press

Judiciary Committee; Sam
» and Chairman Peter Rodino

Roanokers have key roles in impeaehmen. proeeedings: Rep. M. (Udwell Butler (left) fa member of Jndieiar
Garrison (left m photo a. right), minority counsel, eaucuses with Jo), Doar, ehief eounsel of committer

Buena Vista IMewS^ Thursday, July 25, \974 Page 17

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to Attend
Farm Meet

Wampler, the ranking
Republican member of the
House Agriculture Com- (

mittee and Congressmen ^

from Virginia’s Ninth 1

District will participate in U.

S. Rep. Butler’s Farm
Conference August 5 at the
McCormick Farm near
Steeles Tavern.

Wampler, one of the most
knowledgable legislators in
the field of Agri-Business
will join Butler, U.S. Rep. J.
Kenneth Robinson and an
official of the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture at the
event which begins at 10:00
and concludes with a free
barbeque luncheon at noon. (

„ Rep. Butler said he ^yas

ersbn with an extensive
background in farm and
agriculture - business
legislation as Bill Wampler
will be present at our con-,
ference.” Before assuming
he position of Ranking
ilepublican on the Com-
nittee, Rep Wampler held
the top minority seat on the
Committee’s Dairy and
Poultry Subcommittee.

Rep. Wampler, who
resides in Bristol, Virginia,
was first elected to Congress
in 1952 and following a defeat
in 1954 was re-elected in 1966
and every term thereafter.

Also participating in the
conference as resource
personnel will be
representatives of the Soil
Conservation Service,
Farmer Home Ad-
ministration, State
Department of Agriculture
and Commerce, Agricultural
Stabilization and Con-
servation Service, Oc-
cupational Safety and Health
Administration and VPI’s
Agriculture Extension
Service and the Agriculture
Experiment Station. Each
will be available for in-
dividual consultation and
discussion.

u. S. Rep. William

I THE NEWS-VIRGlMIAti, Waynesboro, Va. Wednesday, My

to me bettor— \

Butler Voted Correctly

M 1 caught up on the issues of
The News-Virgihian after a
month away, I was distressed to
t^ad a letter to the editor from
p. Larzelere in the issue of July
12. In his letter, Dr. Larzelere
toundly criticizes Bep. M.
Caldwell Butler’s voting against
Mr. Rontailo’s amendment to
ml 15580 — an amendment that
sought to prohibit the use of
(federal) funds for abortions,
abortion referral service, or
abortion drugs devices.”
(Congressional Record). From
I ™is v °!®i the letter went on to
- Say that now monies would be
j 2* nt and Rep. Butler had closed
his mind on the right-to-life
amendment. Theletter closed by
Saying the Sixth District would
remember this at the bolls.

There are.a number of points
left untouched by this letter,
however, and I will try to bring
them out how. First, this
amendment to the HEW ap-
propriations bill was negative,
an “. a ., v °t e against certain
restrictions on federal aid to
■ abortion is certainly not the
same as voting for abortion,
second, the wording of the
.amendment was such that it
would outlaw all federal aid to
post facto methods of birth
control (IUD’s, morning after
puls, etc.), disrupting hot only
much personal freedom but also
much of the $287 million
allocated for family planning.
Efforts to clarify the language of
the amendment were defeated,

though the problem was brought
out repeatedly as the amend-
ment was discussed.

With this fuller picture, one
draws very different conclusions
from Mr. Butler’s voting record.
His Vote was hot cast to further
the case of abortion. Rather, it
was cast to maintain the federal
programs that assist in family
planning. It Was also cast after
the Supreme Court’s decision
that legalized abortion, If the
amendment had passed, those
dependent ort federal aid for
medical care would not be '
allowed to have abortions (or
many family-planning aids),
while those who were in-
dependent of federal medical aid
would be quite capable of this
service. Oftener than not, those
dependent on federal aid are the
very ones who need family
planning assistance, and the
P assa 8® °f that amendment
would have denied it to them.

Mr. Butler certainly will be
remembered by voters of the
Sxth District when they go to
me polls. He will be remem-
bered as a man who did not react
suddenly and emotionally to
anything involving abortion, but
saw the problems in an am-
biguous amendment ahd acted
to forestall those problems. His
vote was correct. Can we all say

Matthew P. Duilaghan
1234 Hollins Rd„. ’
Waynesboro.

VICE-PRESIDENT GERALD FORD w as a valley visitor last Friday
evening. The veep appeared at Hotel Roanoke fund-raising dinner aiding
the congressional re-election bid of Rep. -Caldwell Butler.

DCu ^ • - v—t 1 «,

Butler may back 1m

WASHINGTON - Rep. Cald-
well Butler has indicated he
may back two articles of im-
peachment.

One article finds the resident
guilty of abusing the powers of
the presidency and the other
charges the President with
being involved in the Water-
\ gate cover-up.

“I truly hate the prospect of
impeaching the President of
the United States,” h> said.
“But I’d also hate for tie rec-
ord to condone all that abuse of
power that has come to light. ”

Butler apparently has found
little evidence to support other
charges laid before the House
Judiciary Committee on which

he serves.

These deal with matters like
the President’s failure to at
first pay all the federal income
taxes he should have and in-
volvement with the ITT and
milk matters.

Butler has not said definitely
what, Tf any, articles of im-
• peachment he’s going to sup-

■n ■

Aide To Visit

Sixth District Congress-
man M. Caldwell Butler’s
representative will be in
the Botetourt County
Court House on Thurs-
day, July 25 (today) from
8:45 to 10:30 a.m, to meet
with citizens wishing to
discuss problems they d
are having with the fed-
eral government.

The representative will
be in Botetourt on the
fourth Thursday of each
month.

Any persons wishing to
discuss a particular pro-
blem with the represen-
tative should bring with
them all papers and cor-
respondence dealing with
the case, in addition to
their Veterans Claim and
Social Security numbers,
i ly r r j 1 ■ ■ ■ i i n 1 1

•* - - ■ • i

, ■ J

correctly. The draft articles
aren’t any good/’

Butler said he would not say
in advance how he would vote
on any articles because “you
don’t know what the charges
are until they are drafted.”

T don’t want to be given the
choice of having to vote on an
article that doesn’t shape the
charges correctly,” he reiter-
ated

But last week Butler said the
“strongest charge I’d be most
tempted to vote for would be an
abuse of power catchall, pro-
vided the evidence could be
found to support it. It’s the
whole pattern of conduct that
bothers me, not one particular
act . • . . The main problem is:
What quantum of proof should
be required?”

The object of the discussions
within his bipartisan group is
to take what proof they have
shape charges that are ful-
ly supported by the evidence.

M, Caldwell Butler

Buena Vista News, Thursday, July 25, 1974 p aq e S

Mike Irvine of Buena Vista (right) and Congressman M. Caldwell Butler
confer with Judiciary Committee leaders Peter W. Rodino, Jr. and Pdward
Hutchinson during a break in committee action. Irvine has just completed a
five-week summer internship with Rep. Butler. V

Debate On Impeachment Begins

v\. K

j HR |i

LISTENS — Rep. m
Caldwell Butler of House Judiciary
Committee, listens to impeachment
debate Wednesday night. We rep-
resents sixth congressional / district
of Virginia which includes
Lynchburg.

r r WASHINGTON (AP) - The House
Judiciary Committee opened historic
debate Wednesday night on a motion
declaring President Nixon’s conduct
“warrants impeachment ... and re-
moval from office.”

The committee was forced into an
i abrupt, 47-minute recess due to a tele-
,2 phonesd bomb threat received by a
' 7 - Capitol operator about an hour after

- . the debate began. No bomb was found.

Before pausing while police made
the search, the panel was formally
^‘presented with a pair of proposed
j articles of impeachment by a Demo-
crat/ and heard Republicans suggest a
^del^y in the nationally televised de-
v /> bat/e.

3 (Offered by the committee’s
i-d sep'ond-ranking Democrat, Rep. Harold

- ^ D ji Donohue of Massachusetts, the im-

tyeachment resolution’s two articles
/charged Nixon with obstruction of jus-
tice in the Watergate investigation
and with otherwise abusing the
* powers of his office.

In a last-minute change, a third
article charging the President with
contempt of Congress — for his refusal
to compaly with committee subpoenas
— was merged into the second article.

Each of the two articles proposed
by Donohue ticked off in legal lan-
guage a number of specific allega-
tions. They concluded that “Richard
M.fNixon by such conduct warrants
impeachment and trial and removal
from office.”

But, other than Donohue, none of
the seven members to speak prior to
the hurried recess referred specifical-
ly to the proposed articles of impeach-
ment.

The members frequently spoke
philsophically. Some saidcspecifically
how they would vote. Others gave only
hints. None of the seven offered a
major surprise in his thinking.

Chairman Peter J. Rodino, DN.J.,
told the committee in his opening
statement that after months of in-
vestigation of Watergate and other
scandals the nation “demands that we
make up our minds.”

Then came the suggestion for de-
lay from Rep. Edward Hutchinson of
Michigan, the ranking Republican,
who cited Wednesday’s unaninmous
Supreme Court order that Nixon turn
over 64 tape-recorded conversations
for the Watergate cover-up trial. Bare-
ly a half hour before the debate
started, Nixon’s lawyer announced the
President would comply “in all re-
spects” with the court.

But Hutchinson didn’t press his
suggestion and Donohue, the white-
haired, second-ranking committee
Democrat, was recognized.

One of the articles of impeach-
ment proposed by Donohue alleged
that Nixon “has prevented, obstructed
and impeded the administration of
justice.” The other alleged that he
“has absued the powers vested in him
as president ... either directly or

through his subordinates or agents.”
The resolution said that following
the Watergate break-in:

“Richard M. Nixon, using the
powers of his high office, has made it
his continuing policy to act, and ... did
act, directly and personally and
through his close subordinates and
agents to delay, impede, and obstruct
the investigation of such illegal entry;
to cover up and conceal the identity of
those responsible; and, to cover up and
to conceal the existence and scope of
related unlawful covert activities.”
The first of the two articles listed
nine specifications, including: Making
false und misleading statements to
duly authorized officers; approving,
condoning, or counseling witnesses to
give false or misleading statements;
interfering with investigations by the
Justice Department, FBI and Water-
gate special prosecution force; approv-
ing and concealing payment of money
to obtain the silence of the Watergate
break-in participants; endeavoring to
misuse the CIA: and suppressing,
withholding and concealing evidence.

The second article, alleging abuse
of power, said that Nixon either direct-
ly or through subordinates authorized
illegal surveillance and investigation
by the FBI, the Secret Service and
others.

It said Nixon unlawfully estab-
lished a special White House in-
vestigative unit, supervised by a presi-
See Debate, A-12, Col. 1

Debate

'Mr-' .-^V

Continued From A-l

dential assistant and illegally financed
in part by campaign funds.

This was' a reference to the so-
called “plumbers” unit which burglar-
ized the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s
psychiatrist. Ellsberg was the leaker of
the Pentagon Papers.

The second article also said Nixon
endeavored to obtain confidential In-
ternal Revenue Service information
and to interfere with the FBPs ac-
tivities.

It also mentioned Nixon’s firing of
the original special Watergate prose-
cutor, Archibald Cox, last October.

Rodino, in opening the debate, de-
clared the question before the commit-
tee was whether Nixon has committed
“grave and systematic violation of the
Constitution.”

One senior Republican, Rep. Rob-
ert McClory of Illinois, echoed
Hutchinson’s suggestion that the de-
bate be postponed until a renewed
effort could be made to obtain tapes
the committee has sought in eight
subpoenas.

McClory said he hoped the com-
mittee could “get promptly and

• - •* ^iMf

On Impeachment Begins

linfKnnl n .1 .... . n .

without equivocation from the White
House the additional tapes we have
also subpoenaed.”

Like Hutchinson, McClory did not
follow up his recommendation with a
formal motion.

Often listed among the Re-
publicans who might support im-
peachment, McClory described the im-
peachment case offered by chief coun-
sel John Doar as resting “on circum-
stantial evidence ... and a generous
measure of wishful thinking.”

During the 10 weeks the committee
received evidence in closed sessions,
McClory said he had occasion to ask
himself, “Is this any way to run a
White House or a country?”

For months, the 38-member com-
mittee had considered impeachment
evidence behind closed and barred
doors. Now, Rodino said, it is “time we
make up our minds.”

“We have been deliberative, we
have been patient, we have been fair,”
Rodino said in remarks opening the
meeting.

“In short, the committee has to
decide whether ... the President was
telling the truth to the American peo-
ple,” said the chairman.

Eight hours earlier, a unanimous
Supreme Court ruled Nixon must turn
over 64 taperecorded conversations
subpoenaed as evidence in the Water-
gate cover-up trial.

And a half-hour before Rodino
gaveled the committee into session,
Nixon pledged through his lawyer to
comply “in all respects” with the court
decision.

Committee Republicans con-
sidered moving to delay committee
debate on the possibility that further
tape recordings might become avail-
able, but decided against such a move
* shortly before the session began.

/ Several committee members
circulated texts of their remarks in
advance.

Rep. Jack Brooks of Texas, the
committee’s third-ranking Democrat,
did not say in his prepared comments
whether he would vote for impeach-
ment, but declared: “Never in our 198
years have we had evidence of such
rempant corruption in government.”

The question, he said, is whether
Nixon himself “by his action or inac-
tion” failed in his constitutional re-
sponsibility.

Brooks spoke, too, of the political

implications of the case.

“There would be no Democratic
gain from removing a Republican
President and having him replaced by
another Republican who could request
and might well receive a great out-
flowing of support from our people ”
he said.

Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., said
in his prepared remarks that Nixon
“has consciously and intentionally en-
gaged in serious misdeeds; he has cor-
rupted and subverted our political and
governmental processes to the extent
that he should be impeached by the
House of Representatives ... “

Edwards predicted that a majority
of the committee was ready “to pre-
sent what we think is overwhelming
evidence to support this conclusion. I
am willing to face my constituents, my
family, myself, and history with this
sober conviction.”

Rep ; Charles W. Sandman Jr., R-
N.J., said in his prepared statement
that he will not vote “to impeach a
President ... on purely circumstantial
evidence which is all that seems to

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Butler: Impeach

fS- Staunton, Va., Leader, Friday, July 26, 1174

There will be no joy ip it for me'

REP. BUTLER

WASHINGTON (AP)— Declaring “there
will be no joy in it for me,” freshman
Republican Congressman M. Caldwell
Butler has called for President Nixon’s
impeachment and removal from office.

Butler, a Nixon supporter in normal
times, told fellow members of the House
Judiciary Committee Thursday.. .“I would
be less than candid if I did not say that my
present inclination is to support articles
incorporating my view of the charges of
obstruction of justice and the abuse of
power.”

Butler, who is running for reelection
from his Western Virginia area 6th
District, made the comment as he took his
turn among committeemen and women
who presented opening statements in the
debate over whether a bill containing arti-
cles of impeachment should be reported to
the House floor.

“It is a sad chapter in American
history,” he said, “but I cannot condone
what I have heard; I cannot excuse it, and
I cannot and will not stand still for it.”

Butler said he was particularly con-
cerned with the pattern of “presidential
abuse of the power given him by the
statute and the Constitution.”

Referring to the “manipulation” of
government agencies such as the Internal
Revenue Service, the freshman Republi-
can said: “The evidence is clear, direct,
and convincing to me that the President of
the United States condoned and en-
couraged the use of the Internal Revenue
Service taxpayer audit as a means of
harassing the President’s political
enemies.”

Butler added that it was apparent to him
that the President participated in a contin-

uing coverup of the Watergate scandal, |
“at least after the 21st day of March 1973.”

“This is clearly a policy of obstruction of
justice which cannot go unnoticed.”

Butler said, in short, power appears to
have corrupted during the Nixon years' j

“This is not to suggest that there are not
many areas of our investigation which .3
clearly reveal to me that some charges do
not elevate themselves to this status of an
impeachable offense,” he said.

While noting he’d been a supporter of the
President, Butler told colleagues on the j
committee that “there are frightening
implications for the future of the country if
we do not impeach the President.”

Butler, however, said he wished to
reserve his final judgment in the matter.

City GOP leaders

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publican member of the House
Judiciary Committee, Thurs-
day called tentatively for the

impeachment of President Ntx-

° n Butler, who was a s t ro j lg
supporter of the Nixon admin-
istration during his last cam-
paien cautioned Thursday
that his tentative decision

wasn’t necessarily his final
judgment in the matter.

3 But, he said he wou d be
“less than candid” if he did not
say his present inclination is to
support articles of impeach-
ment against the President.

Grady M. Wesson vice
president-regional manager of
Nationwide Insurance a
Lynchburg, has been elected to
the Greater Lynchburg
Chamber of Commerce Board
of Directors.

Chesson will fill out the one-
year unexpired portion ot \V.
E. Masencup’s three year term.
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Lynchburg Foundry Co. re-
signed recently

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heard and read excerpts only
from Butler’s talk, said he
“could not help but be proud
to be his constituent and sup-

jfpeman said Butler’s
"statement “must have been
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jdencti*

FralirTsaid he, too, missed
Butler’s full statement but
“my intentions and promises
to support and work for him
are not affected by his (ten-
tative) decision.” ,

. “I h ave absolute confide nce
in hi s abil ity and Judgment,

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were $1.45 for the second quar-
ter, compared with $1.06 for
the same time last year, the
company said.

“A continuation of recent
trends will produce the highest
profits in the company’s his-
tory during 1974, representing
a resonably satisfactory return
on investment,” said Senior
Vice President T. W. M.
Morton.

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.^the- President should be im-
peached.

Fralin said any such com-
ment by him “might unfairly”
reflect on Butler since he is
managing Buter’s campaign lo-
cally.

Freeman said he doesn’t feel
he is able to make such a
. judgment since he has not seen
the evidence.

"7_ .if.

Butler’s

stance

expected

By OZZIE OSBORNE
Political Writer

Rep. Caildwell Butler’s an-
nouncement that he’ll vote for
the impeachment of President
Nixon seems to have caused lit-
tle consternation among local
Republicans and slight sur-
prise among Democrats.

“What did you expect?” was
the reaction from some Demo-
crats and Republicans alike.

“He followed his con-
science” was the feeling
among some Republicans.

There was some feeling that
Butler may have hurt himself
with conservative Republi-
cans, where he has gotten
strong financial support.

At the same time, it appear-
ed to be the consensus that he
may have gained some advan-
tage by taking away one of his
opponents’ campaign issues—
that he is too closely linked
with the scandal-scarred Nixon
administration.

Expectedly, the sharpest cri-
ticism of Butler came from
Roanoke City Sheriff Paul
Puckett, the Democratic nomi-
nee for Congress.

“Wasn't it anticipated?”
asked Puckett of Butler’s an-
nouncement.

“It’s hardly anything you’d
expect Mr. Butler to be against
at election time,” Puckett add-
ed.

He said that Butler didn’t
want to do what he did, but “it
was pushed on him by the peo-
ple.” He was referring to a poll
that showed some 63 per cent
of the 6th District people an-

See BUTLER’S, Pg. 2, Col. 1

From Page One

swering a survey were for Nix-
on’s impeachment.

Vice Mayor David K. Lisk of
Roanoke, a Republican who
was advance man in Virginia
for Nixon for ten years, called
Butler’s presentation of his an-
nouncement “a very fine job/*
And, he said, Butler has
helped himself in the 6th Dis-
trict, saying “Democrats had
hoped he would take a less ag-
gressive stand.”

Del. Richard Cranwell, a
Roanoke County Democrat,
said “the only thing 1 can say is
it‘s tough to make judgments
without having the facts he
(Butler) has.”

He referred to Butler as a “a
very conscientious person”
who is not “politically motivat-
ed.”

Sen. David F. Thornton, R-
Salem, said he is sorry that
Butler found it necessary to do
what he did.

“Hopefully, they’re privy to
more information than we
are,” he said.

Thornton, who called But-
ler’s speech “effective and
powerful,” noted that other
Republicans who’ve supported
President Nixon as strongly as
has Butler heard the same evi
dence, but did not feel inclined

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to go as far as the 6th District
congressman did.

"Certainly it was not unex-

C ed” said Del. Ray L. Gar-
1 , R-Roanoke, of Butler’s
announcement.

"It’s a reflection of his per-
sonal code ... 1 think he per-
sonally was offended by the
seaminess of the evidence.”
Garland, who served in the
Virginia House of Delegates
for years with Butler, said he
felt that the congressman’s
tone was bombastic and that it
may have resulted from pres-
sure and nervousness.

‘‘He may, therefore, have
come across stronger than he
intended,” said Garland.

Garland was one of those
who thought Butler’s action
might alienate some conserva-
tive Republicans. If so, he said
he believed that might benefit
Warren D. Saunders, the
American party candidate who
is the most conservative per-
son in the four-way 6th District
congressional race. The fourth
candidate is Timothy McGay.

Storer Ware, a conservative
Republican, conceded that per-
haps a few conservatives were
disappointed with Butler, but
he made it plain he’s not.

"I thought it was fine,” said
Ware. “What else could he do
after everything that has come
out?”

Another conservative, re-
tired industrialist Don Jordan,
said he was sorry that Butler
did what he felt he had to do.

“I’m sorry he didn’t see it
the other way,” said Jordan. “I
was hoping he could vote
against impeachment.” Jordan
describes himself as an inde-
pendent, but he has for some
time supported Republicans,
particularly at the national lev-
el.

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Had doubts ,
says Butler
of his stand

By JACK BETTS
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler of Roanoke to-
day admitted that he had feel-
ings of doubt that his
announcement to vote for the
impeachment of President Nix-
on may have been “too
strong,” but said he felt he
could no longer delay.

Butler, in an angry denuncia-
tion of President Nixon’s role
in the Watergate cover-up and

Text of Rep. Butler’s talk,
Page 12.

alleged misuse of power, said
he would support two articles
of impeachment.

Today, he said, “I felt that
having gone through the ago-
nizing process of arriving at
my decision, I owed my consti-
tuents the courtesy of saying
what 1 had concluded.”

' But, said the 6th District Re-
publican, if subsequent infor-
mation comes up that would
change his mind, “I’ll just have
to change my vote and admit
it.”

Butler said that in the con-
text of the House Judiciary
Committee’s historic impeach-
ment debate, “I may have put
it (his announcement) too
strong, but there is no such
thing as a weak impeachment
vote.”

Butler said he had been ar-
riving at his decision over a
long period of time, but that
over the past weekend he had
firmed up the decision. He said
he had talked with his wife,
June, about it before making
up his mind.

In drafting his statement
yesterday morning, Butler
said, “it appeared the thing to
do was to talk all around it
without exactly expressing it
(his decision), but as I wrote
and toyed around with the
speech I found it just wasn’t
my style.

“It appeared that this was
the way to do it, although it
may turn out to have been
wrong ”

The reaction to Butler's
speech yesterday afternoon
was immediate.

In the halls outside the com-
mittee room and in the Repub-
lican cloakroom members of
Congress were congratulating
Butler on his stand and bypas-
sers were stopping to shake his
hand.

In his offices a few hundred
yards away, the telephones
were ringing constantly
The calls, many of which
came from the 6th District,
were from viewers as far away
as Oregon and as close by as
Arlington.

Some of the calls were com-
plimentary, while others were
not. And some who refused to
identify themselves were said

From Page 1

to be abusive and. in some
cases, obscene.

Mrs. Butler said at the
family home in Roanoke that
she had received many tele-
phone calls. Most of them were
complimentary but four, from

, 1 I

anonymous persons, were
‘‘very rude and Ugly.”

Butler in his nationally-tele-
vised statement calling for
Nixon’s impeachment and re-
moval from office said he can-
not condone what he has heard
about the President.

At the same time, he said
“there will be no joy in it few
me ... ”

Butler, who has been a warm
supporter of Nixon and for
whom Nixon has campaigned,
told fellow members of the Ju-
diciary Committee:

“I would be less than candid
if I did not say that my present
inclination is to support arti-
cles incorporating my view of
the charges of obstruction of
justice and the abuse of pow-
er.**

Butler’s comments came as
he took his turn among com-
mittee members presenting
statements in the debate over
whether a bill of impeachment
should be reported to the House
floor.

“It is a sad chapter in Ameri-
can history, but I cannot con-
done what I have heard,” said
Butler.“I cannot excuse it and
I cannot and will not stand still
for it”

He added that there are
“frightening implications for
the future of the country if we
do not impeach the President.”

Butler was the second Re-
publican on the Judiciary Com-
mittee to come out for
impeachment, the first b&ng
Rep. Lawrence Hogan of Mary-
land. Like Butler, Hogan has
been a strong Nixon supporter.

Hogan is seeking the Repub*
lican gubernatorial nomination
in Maryland. Butler is running
for re-election in the 6th Con-
gressional District of Virginia.

Butler said in his statement
that it’s clear to him that Pres-
ident Nixon used the Internal
Revenue Service to harass his
political enemies.

He said, too, it’s apparent the
President participated in a
continuing coverup of the Wa-
tergate scandal, “at least after-
the 21st day of March 1973.”

“This,” he said, “is clearly a
policy of obstruction of justice
which cannot go unnoticed.”

In short, said Butler, power
appears to have corrupted dur-
ing the Nixon years.

Butler also said:

“I am deeply grateful for the
many kindnesses and courte-
sies he (President Nixon) has
shown me over the years.

“I am not unmindful of the
loyalty I owe him. I mention
this, Mr. Chairman, so that you
may be aware of how distaste-
ful this proceeding is for me as
it must have been for every
other member of this commit-
tee”

He said “the pattern of mis-
representation and half-truths
that emerges from our investi-
gation reveals presidential pol-
icy cynically based on the
premise that the truth itself is
negotiable.”

Probers reject plea
for delay in hearings

turn over to the committee
more White House tape record-
ings within 10 days.

The roll call vote on the de-
lay motion of Rep. Robert
McClory of Illinois brought a
blurring of pro and anti-im-
peachment lines.

Some of Nixon’s GOP sup-
porters joined the panel’ si
Democratic leadership in op-
posing the delay motion, while
some who seek impeachment
favored the pause.

r (Rep. Caldwell Butler voted
[or the delay.)

When the committee com-
pleted its opening round of de-
bate Thursday, it was clear
that a majority of members
favored the move to oust Nix-
on.

Chairman Peter W. Rodino
Jr., D-N.J., declared then that
the committee members face
“the terrible, tremendous bur-
den of trying to reach a deci-
sion that will last for all time.”
Rodino, leader of the majori-
ty Democrats, said in closing
the committee’s general de-
bate on impeachment: “I find
that the President must be
found wanting.”

The task of writing an article
charging Nixon with obstruc-
tion of justice in connection
with the Watergate cover-up
will occupy the committee to-
day in the third day of its na-
tionally televised
deliberations.

On the basis of their pre-
viously announced positions it
appeared certain a majority of
the committee is prepared to
recommend impeachment if a
satisfactory article can be
drafted.

It takes only a majority of
the Judiciary Committee’s 38

WASHINGTON (AP) - The
House Judiciary Committee
soundly rejected today a Re-
publican plea for delay and
moved on to shape precise
charges for its expected recom-
mendation that President Nixon
be impeached

The delay was rejected on a
vote of 27-11

Rep. Delbert Latta, R-Ohio.
a committee member opposed
to impeachment, sees a 27-11
vote in favor of a recommenda-
tion that the House impeach
Nixon and that a Senate trial be
held to determine whether he

members to recommend im-
peachment and a majority of
the House to impeach. It would
require a two-thirds vote in the
Seriate to find the President
guilty and remove him from
office.

would be removed from office.

Rodino plans to continue the
Judiciary Committee meeting
into the night, if necessary, to
complete the drafting of an ar-
ticle and bring it to a vote.

Other articles charging Nixon
with abuse of power and failure
to comply with committee sub-
poenas are to be offered, but as
soon as one is approved a for-
mal recommendation of im-
peachment will have been
made.

The certainty that the com-
mittee will recommend im-
peachment was sealed Thurs-
day when every uncommitted
member either came out for
impeachment or expressed
such deep concern over Nixon’s
conduct of his office that it left
little doubt as to how they
would vote.

The panel's second-ranking
Republican sought unsuccess-
fully to halt the nationally
broadcast proceeding, giving
Nixon 24 hours to say he would

In a long round of speeches

See PROBERS, Pg. 4, Col. 6

Congressman For Impeachment

‘There Will Be No Joy In It For Me’

See editorial comment, Page 4

WASHINGTON (AP) -Declaring “there
will be no joy in it for me,” freshman Republi-
can Congressman M. Caldwell Butler has
called for President Nixon’s impeachment
and removal from office.

Butler, a Nixon supporter in normal times,
told fellow members of the House Judiciary
Committee Thursday... “I would be less than
candid if I did not say that my present in-
clination is to support articles incorporating
my view of the charges of obstruction of jus-
tice and the abuse of power.”

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whether a bill containing articles of im-
peachment should be reported to the House
floor.

“It is a sad chapter in American history,”
he said, “but I cannot condone what I have
heard; I cannot excuse it, and I cannot and
will not stand still for it.”

Butler said he was particularly concerned
by the pattern of “presidential abuse of the
power given him by statute and the Con-
stitution.”

Referring to the “manipulation” of
government agencies such as the Internal
Revenue Service, the freshman Republican
said: “The evidence is clear, direct, and
convincing to me that the President of the
United States condoned and encouraged the
use of the Internal Revenue Service taxpayer

audit as a means of harassing the President’s
political enemies.”

Butler added that it was apparent to him
that the President participated in a contin-
uing cover up of the Watergate scandal, “at
least after the 21st day of March 1973.”

“This is clearly a policy of obstruction of
justice which cannot go unnoticed.”

Butler said, in short, power appears to have
corrupted during the Nixon years.

“This is not to suggest that there are not
many areas of our investigation which clearly
reveal to me that some charges do not elevate
themselves to this status of an impeachable
offense,” he said.

While noting he’d been a supporter of the
President, Butler told colleagues on the com-
mittee that “there are frightening im-

ews

plications for the future of the country if we do
not impeach the President.”

Butler, however, said he wished to reserve
his final judgment in the matter.

Meanwhile, Virginia’s Congressional
delegation praised the power and “con-
science” of Butler’s impeachment statement,
but remained publicly cautious on how they
might vote themselves.

Nonetheless, some private assessments
within the delegation suggested that Butler
might carry at least four or five other
Virginia congressmen to his position that the
President should be impeached.

“It was a very powerful statement,” said
Rep. G. William Whitehurst, a Republican
from the Norfolk area 2nd District. But
Whitehurst said he would “weigh very
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The House
Judiciary Committee completed Thursday
night the opening round in its landmark
impeachment debate, an exchange which
signaled an almost certain recommen-
dation that Richard M. Nixon be removed
from the presidency. .

One by one, hour by hour, the 38 mem-
bers delivered their formal speeches in a
presidential impeachment proceeding that
has gone further than any in a century.
Many Americans watched on television or
listened on radio.

When they finished, 19 members —
including two Republicans and Democrat-
ic Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr. of New
Jersey — had declared their belief Nixon
should be impeached. Five other members
indicated pro-impeachrpent leanings.

If all members vote, 20 ayes are re-
quired to approved a resolution recom-
jnending that the full House impeach
TMixon aftd placed him on trial in the Sen-
ate.

With the opening debate concluded,
;the committee was poised for a series of
votes on specific articles of impeachment.
This process was to begin Friday and is
expected to continue through Saturday.

Republicans talked on an effort to
postpone a final 'committee vote for a
month while new attempts were made to
•obtain White House tape recordings. But
the committee’s Democratic leaders op-
posed such a delay, virtually dooming it to
defeat.

The committee’s second-ranking Re-
publican, Rep. Robert McClory of Illinois,
prepared for introduction Friday a substi-
tute article of impeachment accusing Nix-
: on of having “engaged in_a pattern of
conduct in violation of his constitutional
duties to execute faithfully” his oath of
office.

j Although it ticked off a series of spe-
cific offenses, the language of McClory’s

proposal was broader than the two articles
of impeachment placed before the com-
mittee on Wednesday by a Democrat.

In the final hours of the dayand-night
debate, Nixon’s base among committee
Republicans eroded and even his staunch-
est GOP supporters conceded the outcome
was certain.

Several Republicans pleaded for fair-
ness to Nixon and a presumption of inno-
cence, but Democrat after Democrat
declared his impeachment was needed to
restore confidence in government.

One Democrat injected the name of
Vice President Gerald R. Ford, saying the
country would rally behind him if he suc-
ceeded Nixon.

Rodino closed the debate, speaking in
measured, solemn tones as he said he will
vote to recommend impeachment.

“I shall do so with a heavy heart be-
cause no man seeks to accuse or to find
wanting the chief executive of this great
country of ours,” Rodino said.

The panel’s ranking Republican, Ed-
ward Hutchinson of Michigan, preceded
Rodino and said the Democrat’s proposal
was a “grab bag of allegations” of un-
proved offenses not meeting constitutional
requirements for impeachment.

Hutchinson is expected to oppose the
proposal of the panel’s No. 2 Republican to
replace the already-introduced Democrat-
ic articles with a single impeachment
count.

McClory’s proposed article contends:

—Nixon aides covered up the Water-
gate break-in “which fact he knew or
should have known.”

—He violated the Constitution’s
Fourth Amendment by directing illegal
wiretaps.

—He created the White House plumb-
ers “with reckless disregard for the rights
of others.”

—He attempted to prejudice the right

of Daniel Ellsberg to a fair trial “for his
own personal or political benefit.”

—He “attempted to corrupt and mis-
use” the Internal Revenue Service, Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency and FBI.

—He “misused his office” to obtain in-
formation from the Justice Department to
help aides escape possible criminal prose-
cution in the Watergate cover-up.

—And he “knowingly made false rep-
resentations to criminal investigators so
as to obstruct the due administration of
justice” in the Watergate cover-up.

McClory told newsmen after the com-
mittee recessed that “it seems to me that
with all of these persons who committed,
these criminal acts in the White House the
President must bear some of the responsi-
bility.”

But McClory refused to say how he
might vote on impeachment motions if his
substitute is defeated.

One of McClory’s Republican col-
leagues, Rep. Delbert Latta of Ohio, de-
clared “the evidence isn’t there . . . the
case is that simple.”

/ Some of the sharpest criticism of the
/President came from Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler, a Virginia Republican, who had
been regarded as uncommitted.

If the committee fails to approve arti-
cles of impeachment, said Butler, “we
will have condoned and left unpunished a
presidential course of conduct designed to
\ interfere with and obstruct the very pro-
cess he is sworn to uphold.”

Shortly before Butler spoke during the
nationally broadcast colloquy, Rep. Law-
rence J. Hogan, R-Md., said “It is impos-
sible for me to condone or ignore the long
train of abuses to which he (Nixon) has
subjected the presidency.”

Two days ago, Hogan told a news con-
ference he planned to vote for impeach-
ment.

Butler

Keveals

Stand

WASHINGTON (AP)-Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler of the 6th
District, a freshman Re-
publican member of the House
Judiciary Committee, Thurs-
day called tentatively for the
impeachment of President Nix-
on.

Butler, taking his turn as
the committee members de-
livered opening statements
during the impeachment de-
bate, cautioned that this wasn’t
necessarily his final judgment
j in the matter.

Butler, however, said he
would be “less than candid” if
he did not say that his present
inclination is to support
articles of impeachment of the
President based on charges of
obstruction of justice and the
abuse of power.

"There will be no joy in it
for me,” said Butler as he re-
ferred to the President’s al-
leged politicizing of govern-
ment agencies such as the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation,
the Internal Revenue Service
and the Central Intelligence
Agency.

In explaining his pre-
liminary finding in favor of
impeachment, Butler, a law-
yer, said “The misuse of power
is the very essence of tryanny:
“But the evidence is clear
and direct and convincing to
me that the President of the
United States condoned and
encouraged the use of the IRS
taxpayer audit as a means of
harrassing the President’s
enemies.”

Butler, one of the six com-
mittee Republicans viewed as
sitting on the fence, said that it"
the President is not impeached
the nation faces a future of
“frightening implications.”

He noted that he had been a
long-time campaigner as a Nix-
on ally, but declared that
"There are frightening im-
plications for the future of our
country if we do not impeach
the President.”

Butler, who is seeking his
second term in office, got a
See BUTLER, A-2, Col. 1

— Ar Wirepnoto

ENTERS DEBATE — Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, freshman member of House
Judiciary Committee, entered debate Thursday by tentatively calling for impeachment
of President Nixon, but cautioned this wasn’t necessarily his final judgment. He 1
represents district that includes Lynchburg.

campaign lift last weekend
from Vice President Gerald R.
Ford, who said that he would
not drop his support of Butler
if the congressman supported
Nixon’s impeachment.

Ford’s view was that such
arm-twisting tactics would be
an affront te members of Con-
gress, while at the same time
maintaining his own position
that there is insufficient
evidence to warrant the im-
peachment of the President.

Nearing Decision

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Ju-
diciary Committee moved ever nearer
Thursday night to its almost certain de-
cision to recommend the impeachment of
President Nixon.

The long anticipated committee de-
cision for impeachment grew more certain
during the day long debate as the
President’s small base of Republican sup-
port within the committee slowly
diminished.

The debate moved to the junior mem-
bers of the committee, and the tally of
outright declarations for the impeach-
ment of the President grew to 16, includ-
ing two Republicans. Five other members
leaned that way.

Debate on the specific article of im-
peachment was scheduled to open today,
but Republicans planned to try for a post-
ponement to allow time to renew the
inquiry’s efforts to obtain White House
tapes.

There was little chance the move
would succeed over the opposition of the
Democratic majority.

Some of the sharpest criticism of the
President came from Rep. M. Caldwell

Butler, a Virginia Republican, who had
been regarded as uncommitted.

If the committee fails to approve
articles of impeachment, said Butler, “we
will have condoned and Left unpunished a
presidential course of conduct designed to
interfere with and obstruct the very proc-
ess he is sworn to uphold.”

Shortly before Butler spoke during the
nationally broadcast colloquy, Rep. Law-
rence J. Hogan, R-Md., said “It is impossi-
ble for me to condone or ignore the long
train of abuses to which he (Nixon) has
subjected the presidency.”

Two days ago, Hogan told a news
conference he planned to vote for im-

peachment.

In a dramatic, unexpected announce-
ment, Rep. Harold V. Froehlich, R-Wis.,
said, “I must confess I am deeply pained
and troubled by some of the thing I see,”
referring to the Watergate cover-up.

With his voice cracking, Froehlich
concluded, “I am concerned about im-
peaching the President for his actions ...
My decision awaits the final wording of
the articles (of impeachment) and the re-
maining debate.”

Many members withheld judgment as
they made their 15-minute opening
statements, instead emphasizing the his-
toric import and heavy vurden of the ever-

nearer decision.

Nixon received backing from a Cali-
fornia Republican, Rep. Carlos Moorhead,
who told the committee: “I know it would
be easy to vote for impeachment ... it is
hard to be against something that so many
people are for.”

But Moorhead said “there are two
sides” to the case and that he has con-
cluded Nixon has in most instances acted
in the best interests of the people.

Speakers were called on the basis of
seniority and by the time the debate
reached the bottom third of the committee
ranks, 12 members had declared their in-
dention to support impeachment.

In addition to Hogan and Butler, the
most recent declarations came from Reps.
George Danielson of California, John
Seiberling of Ohio and Robert F. Drinan
of Massachusetts, who was one of the first
members of the House to file an impeach-
ment resolution.

20 Votes Needed

It would take 20 votes on the 38-mem-
ber committee for approval of the pro-
posed articles of impeachment.

In addition, two other Republicans
indicated they could be leaning toward
supporting impeachment.

Rep. William S. Cohen of Maine, in a
speech highly critical of the actions of the
Nixon administration, rejected arguments
that the only ground for impeachment is
a violation of a criminal law.

But Cohen, long regarded as leaning
toward impeachment, stopped just short
of saying how he planned to vote.

It also was learned that Rep. Robert
McClory of Illinois, second ranking Re-
publican on the committee, was drafting a
proposed article of impeachment that
would accuse the President of violating
the constitutional requirement that “he
shall take care that the laws be faithfully
executed.”

McClory said he would offer his pro-
posal as a substitute when debate begins
on two articles already submitted by a
Democrat.

While Danielson was speaking, the
session was briefly interrupted once again
by an anonymous call warning that there
was a bomb in the room. Two such calls
were received Wednesday night.

AP Photo

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nces Nixon's 'Sad Chapter'

Butler

Excerpts

" I om deeply grateful for the
many kindnesses and courtesies he
(President Nixon) has shown me
over the years . I am not unmindful
of the loyalty I owe him . I mention
this, Mr. Chairman, so that you
may be aware of how distasteful
this proceeding is for me as it must
have been for every other member
of this committee ."

★ ★ ★

"There are frightening im-
plications for the future of our coun-
try if we do not impeach the
President of the United States."

★ ★ ★

"The pattern of misrepresentation
and half-truths that emerges from
our investigation reveals presiden-
tial policy cynically based on the
premise that the truth itself is
negotiable."

★ ★ ★

"In short, power appears to have
been corrupted. It is a sad chapter
in American history, but I cannot
condone what I have heard ; I can-
not excuse it, and I cannot and will
not stand still for it."

^;V

Butler

Impeachment

From Page 1

hunched forward to work on his state-
ment.

He began preparing it late Wednesday
night and was still working on it up to the
moment lie began to speak at about 2:45
p.m.

5 His son, Jimmy, who will enter Amer-
ican University in Washington this fall, sat
in the members’ staff and family section
^through most of the afternoon debate.

Describing the impeachment pro-
cess as “a most distasteful experience for
us all,” Butler said he continued to take
pride in the accomplishments of the Presi-
dent and acknowledged that “there are
those who believe I would not be here to-
day if it were not for our joint effort in
1972.”

Nevertheless, he went on, “for years
we Republicans have campaigned against
corruption and misconduct” of Democrat-
! ic administrations.

\ He recalled that the cry _of “Tru-

mamsm 7 had put Gen. Dwight Eisenhow-
jer in the White House in 1952 and that
i “somehow or other we have found the cir-
cumstances to bring that issue before the
'American people in every national cam-
paign.”

f “But Watergate is our shame,” Butler
said. “Those things happened in the Re-
publican administration in which we had a
Republican in the White House and every
single person convicted to date has one
way or the other owed allegiance to the
Republican party.”

In his statement,: Butler warned that
Republicans “cannot indulge ourselves
the luxury of patronizing or excusing the
: misconduct of our own people.”

) “These things have happened in our
house and it is our responsibility to do
what we can to clear it up. It is we, not the
Democrats, who must demonstrate that
we are capable of enforcing the high
standards we would set for them.”

^ Butler said the American people were

entitled to assume that the President tells
the truth.

But, he charged, “the pattern of mis-
representation and half-truths that
emerges from our investigation reveals
presidential policy cynically based on the
premise that the truth itself is negotia-
ble.”

He cited the case of former U.S. Atty.
Gen. Richard Kleindienst in which Presi-
dent Nixon knew that Kleindienst had lied
to a Senate committee but failed to take
action.

“The record is replete with official
presidential misrepresentations of nonin-
volvement, and representations of investi-
gations and reports never made, if indeed
undertaken at all,” Butler said.

The Roanoke native expressed dismay
that throughout the presidential tran-
scripts “there is no real evidence of regret
for what occurred, or remorse, or resolu-
tion to change and precious little refer-
ence to or concern for constitutional
responsibility or reflections upon the basic
obligations of the office of the presiden-
cy.”

Butler said he was convinced that
there are a number of areas, such as Cam-
bodia, impoundment of funds, tax fraud
and the milk deal that cannot warrant a
charge of impeachment.

But the president’s response to infor-
mation that came to him, and his partici-
pation “in the continuing policy of
coverup” clearly constituted “a policy of
obstruction of justice which cannot go un-
noticed.” .

Further, he said, there existed a
“pattern of presidential abuse of power
given him by statute and the Constitution.

The manipulation of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, the Internal Revenue
Service and the White House plumbers
“are frightening in the implications for
the future of America.

“The evidence is clear, direct and con-
vincing that the President of the United
States condoned and encouraged the use of
the Internal Revenue Service taxpayer

audit as a means of harassing the Presi-
dent’s political enemies ” Butler said.

While reserving judgment, he said in
conclusion, “I would be less than candid if
I did not now say that my present inclina-
tion is to support articles incorporating
my view of the charges of obstruction of
justice aiid abuse of power, but there will
be no joy in it for me.”.

Butler was the 22nd committee mem-
ber to give his view of the impeachment
evidence. The committee hopes to wind up
debate and complete voting on the pro-
posed articles by Tuesday at the latest.

Although other Republicans had made
strong statements and one, Maryland Rep.
Larry Hogan, had announced he would
vote against the President, Butler’s strong
statement was significant because of his
background and his past loyalty to the
President.

Remarked one observer: “He had two
southerners (Democrats James Mann of
South Carolina and Walter Flowers of Ala-
bama, two members considered on the
fence) on base and Butler drove ’em both
in.” '

His statement also was important be-
cause of the effect it might have on other
members— both Republicans and Demo-
crats-of the Virginia congressional dele-
gation.

Butler has been meeting with mem-
bers of the group for weeks to brief them
on the committee’s general findings, and
one observer said Thursday afternoon that
Butler may influence as many as five of
them— enough to swing the delegation
against the President by a slim, one-vote
margin. There are 10 members, seven
Republicans and three Democrats, in the
Old Dominion contingent.

Butler had been considered likely to
vote for the two articles of impeachment
since Monday when he began meeting with
a bipartisan group to perfect v the language
in a proposed resolution of impeachment,
but his strong statement for the resolu-
tion-coupled with his criticism of the
President— had been unexpected at this
point in the committee's debate. .

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Butler Supporting

Nixon Impeachment

WASHINGTON ^-De-
claring “there will be no joy in
it for me,” freshman Republi-
can Congressman M. Caldwell
Butler has called for President
Nixon’s impeachment and re-
moval from office.

Butler, a Nixon supporter in
normal times, told fellow mem-
bers of the House Judiciary
Committee Thursday. ..“I would
be less than candid if I did not
say that my present inclination
is to support articles in-
corporating my view of the
charges of obstruction of jus-
tice and the abuse of power.”

Butler, who is running for re-
election from his Western Vir-
ginia area 6th District, made
the comment as he took his
turn among committeemen and
women who presented opening
statements in the debate over
whether a bill containing arti-
cles of impeachment should be
reported to the House floor.

“It is a sad chapter in Ameri-
can history,” he said, “but I
cannot condone what I have
heard; I cannot excuse it, and I
cannot and will not stand still
for it.”

Butler said he was particular-
ly concerned the pattern of

“presidential abuse of the pow-
er given him by the statute and
the Constitution.”

Referring to the “manipula-
tion” of government agencies
such as the Internal Revenue
Service, the freshman Republi-
can said: “The evidence is
clear, direct, and convincing to
me that the President of the

United States condoned and en-
couraged the use of the Inter-
nal Revenue Service taxpayer
audit as a means of harassing
the President’s political
enemies.”

| Butler added that it was ap-
parent to him that the Presi-
dent participated in a contin-
uing coverup of the Watergate
scandal, “at least after the 21st
day of March 1973.”

“This is clearly a policy of
obstruction of justice which
cannot go unnoticed.”

Butler said, in short, power
appears to have corrupted dur-
ing the Nixon years.

“This is not to suggest that
there are not many areas of
our investigation which clearly
reveal to me that some charges
do not elevate themselves to
this status of an impeachable
offense,” he said.

While noting he’d been a sup-
porter of the President, Butler
told colleagues on the com-
mittee that “there are fright-
ening implications for the fu-
ture of the country if we do not
impeach the President.”

Butler, however, said he
wished to reserve his final
judgment in the matter.

■HHj

THE ROANOKE TIMES

— — * 4 Roanoke, Virginia, Friday, July 26, 1974

Rep. Butler To Support

Impeachment of Nixon

By JACK BETTS
Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Declaring “there
will be no joy in it for me,” Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler, R-Va., announced Thursday
that he intends to support at least two arti-
cles of impeachment of President Nixon.

Using only seven of his alloted 15 min-
utes, Butler delivered in firm, staccato
phrases an indictment of Nixon’s “sad
chapter in American history.”

“I cannot condone what I have heard;
I cannot excuse it; and I cannot and will
not stand still for it,” Butler said.

“In short,” he said, “power appears to
have corrupted.”

Butler, long active in Roanoke and
Virginia Republican affairs, is Virginia’s
only member of the House Judiciary Com-
mittee, the body now debating impeach-
ment. He is one of the committee’s 17
Republicans and has been regarded as a
possible vote for impeachment. But until

Thursday he had avoided committing him-
self to an impeachment vote.

In his speech to the committee, car-
ried nationwide by the CBS television net-
work, Butler charged:

“There are frightening implications
for the future of our country if we do not
impeach the President of the United
States.”

He said the committee’s impeach-
ment proceedings would establish “a stan-
dard of conduct for the President of the
United States which will for all time be a
matter of public record.”

Butler said
have condonec
course of condu
the reasonable
can people. We
unpunished a
duct designed
struct the very

‘if we fail to impeach, w
and left unpunished ;
i:t totally inconsistent witl
expectations of the Ameri
vill have condoned and lef
p esidential course of con
o interfere with and ob
process which he is sworr

to uphold; and we will have condoned and
left unpunished an abuse of power fatallv
without justification.”

And, Butler declared, “we will have
said to the American people, ‘these deeds
are inconsequential and unimportant’.”
Wearing a white shirt, dark blue suit
and print tie, Butler quickly read his state-
ment as reporters craned to watch and
furiously scribbled notes.

During the earlier statements, Butler
had alternately leaned back in his chair on
the dais to listen to the debate and

See Page 2B, Col. 1

Virginia's Congressmen Praise But-
ler's Remarks — Page 2B.

Text of Rep. Butler's Speech
—Page 2B.

LEANS BACK — Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, R-Va.,
leans back with his hands clasped behind his head
as general debate on the impeachment question

continues during
Thursday. Butler

night session in Washington
offered his views earlier.

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1 APUGjJCE

Butler tells panel
he's for impeaching

WASHINGTON (AP) - De-
claring “there will be no joy in
it for me,” freshman Re-
publican Congressman M.
Caldwell Butler has called for
President Nixon’s impeach-
ment and removal from office.

Butler, a Nixon supporter in
normal times, told fellow mem-
bers of the House Judiciary
Committee Thursday. ..“I
would be less than candid if I
did not say that my present
inclination is to support
articles incorporating my view
of the charges of obstruction of
justice and the abuse of
power.”

Butler, who is running for
reelection from his Western
Virginia area 6th District,
which includes Lynchburg and
u Lonoke, made-, the comment
as he took his turn among com-
mitteemen and women who
presented opening statements
in the debate over whether a

bill containing articles of im-
peachment should be reported
to the House floor.

“It is a sad chapter in Amer-
ican history,” he said, “but I
cannot condone what I have
heard; I cannot excuse it, and I
cannot and will not stand still
for it.”

Butler said he was particu-
larly concerned the pattern of
“presidential abuse of the
power given him by the statute
and the Constitution.”

Referring to the “manipu-
lation” of government agencies
such as the Internal Revenue
Service, the freshman Re-
publican said: “The evidence is
clear, direct, and convincing to
me that the President of the
United States condoned and
encouraged the use of the In-^
ternai Revenue- Service . tax :
payer auait as a means of
harassing the President’s polit-
ical enemies.”

Butler added that it was ap-

parent to him that the Presi-
dent participated in a continu-
ing coverup of the Watergate
scandal, “at least after the 21st
day of March 1973.”

“This is clearly a policy of
obstruction of justice which
cannot go unnoticed.”

Butler said, in short, power
appears to have corrupted dur-
ing the Nixon years. -.

“This is not to suggest that
there are not many areas of
our investigation which clearly
reveal to me that some charges
do not elevate themselves to
this status of an impeachable
offense,” he said.

While noting he’d been a
supporter of the President,
Butler told colleagues on the
committee that “there are
frightening implications for
-the lulu re^af

do not impeach the President.”
Butler, however, said he
wished to reserve his final
judgment in the matter.

fVa. congressmen praise
Butler for his statement ’

WASHINGTON (AP) -
Virginia’s Congressional del-
egation praised the power and
: “conscience” of Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler’s impeach-
ment statement Thurday, but
remained publicly cautious on
how they might vote
themselves.

'% Nonetheless, some private

Calls to Butler
indicate
mixed reaction

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler, who
said Thursday he is inclined
to cast his House Judiciary
Committee swing vote to
impeachment of President
Nixon, was one of Nixon's
most consistent supporters
up until last year.

Secretaries in his office
said the reaction was mixed
with many people praising
his comments but some an-
grily taking out their
frustrations against his
stand by bawling out secre-
taries who answered the
phones.

assessments within the delega-
tion suggested that Butler
might carry at least four or
five other Virginia con-
gressmen to his position that
the President should be im-
peached.

Both Republican Sen. Wil-
liam L. Scott and Republican
Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr;, who
headed a Virginia committee
backing Nixon’s re-election, de-
clined to comment on Butler’s
statement.

“It was a very powerful
statement,” said Rep. G. Wil-
liam Whitehurst, a Republican
from the Norfolk area 2nd Dis-
trict. But Whitehurst said he
would “weigh very carefully”
othe evidence and the exact
language of the impeachment
articles before he makes up his
own mind.

Rep. Robert W. Daniel, a
Republican from the 4th Dis-
trict said, “I hold Caldwell But-
ler to be a man of high integri-
ty and conscience. I am sure
that what he is doing is in-
terpreting the evidence as he
sees it and to be making his
decision accordingly.” Daniel
said he did not know whether
he would respond to the same
facts in the same way.

Rep. William C. Wampler, a
veteran Republican from
Bristol in the 9th District said,
“I have nothing but the

highest personal regard and re-
spect for Caldwell Butler. I am
sure that his being on the com-
mittee, he is privy to things we
aren’t privy to.”

A northern Virginia Re-
publican, Stanford Parris,
termed Butler’s remarks “rea-
soned.”

Rep. Thomas N. Downing,
DNewport News, said he was
tremendously impressed with
Butler’s statement.

“He was sincere and stated
his point of view very well,”
Downing said.

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Nixon

By Martha Angle

Star-News Staff Writer

The “Southern strategy” which
President Nixon pursued in his
1968 campaign — and revived for
the current impeachment strug-
gle — appears to have foundered
in the House Judiciary Commit-
tee.

As the committee prepared to
vote on articles of impeachment,
all but one of its Southern mem-
bers sadly served notice they
cannot condone the conduct of
the President who captured the
support of so many of their con-
stituents in two successive elec-
tions.

Only Rep. Trent Lott, R-Miss.,
remained firmly in the Nixon
camp as the committee con-
cluded two days of “general de-
bate,” in reality personal posi-
tion statements, on the pros and
cons of impeachment.

NOT ALL of the remaining
Southerners — Reps. Walter
Flowers, D-Ala., James R. Mann,
D-S.C., Ray Thornton, D-Ark., M.
Caldwell Butler, R-Va., Barbara
Jordan, D-Texas, and Jack
Brooks, D-Texas — committed
themselves flatly in favor of im-
peachment.

But they came pretty close,
and their often anguished
summations of the evidence and
personal declarations of con-
science — coupled with apparent
defections from up to half of the
panel’s 17 Republicans — had im-
mediate reverberations in the
full House.

“The results have been clearly
adverse for the President,” said
Rep. John H. Buchanan, R-Ala.
“It would seem to me that unless
there is an outpouring of expres-
sion for the President from the
American people, or some other
rather strong development on his
behalf, he is now likely to be im-
peached.”

SOUTHERNERS STRAY

' Strategy ' Fails

FOR MONTHS now, Nixon has
been courting Southern Demo-
crats whose conservative voting
habits coincide in most cases
with his own political philosophy
and policies.

Dixie Democrats have been
summoned to the White House for
ceremonial bill signings, shower-
ed with social invitations and

perhaps most significantly —
asked aboard the presidential
yacht Sequoia for evening
cruises with Nixon.

The President needs the South-
erners, and all but a score or so
of the House Republicans, to es-
cape impeachment. But defec-
tions from both groups within the
Judiciary Committee a ppenr -to
bode ill for his chances on the
House floor.

It was a conservative Republi-
can from Virginia — a state more
accustomed to breeding Presi-
dents than breaking them — who
delivered one of the stiffest blows
to Nixon during yesterday’s de-
bate.

Until yesterday. Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler — a freshman from
Roanoke whose 6th District gave
Richard M. Nixon his biggest
Virginia margin in 1972 — had
kept his own counsel on impeach-
ment.

THERE HAD BEEN hints that
Butler might vote to impeach,
but the fervbr of his declaration
caught committee members and
others in the House by surprise.
And because he is both a South-
erner and a Republican — with a
1973 presidential support “score”
■of 75 percent, one of the highest
in the House — his decision
carried special weight.

Butler told his hushed col-
leagues that Republicans have a
special responsibility in judging
the President’s conduct.

REP. TRENT LOTT

REP. M. CALDWELL BUTLER

“For years,” he said, “we
Republicans have campaigned
against corruption and miscon-
duct in the administration of the
government of the United States
by the other party . . . But Water-
gate is our shame!”

Republicans, Butler warned,
“cannot indulge ourselves in the
luxury of patronizing and excus-
ing the misconduct of our own
people. These things happened in
our house and it is our responsi-
bility to do what we can to clear
it up.”

IN A RUSH of sharply worded
charges, Butler shed the “unde-
cided” cloak he had worn
throughout the long investigation
and explained why he is
“presently inclined” to support
articles of impeachment based on
obstruction of justice and abuse
of power by the President.

Ticking off examples of “the
misuse of power — the very es-
sence of tyranny,” Butler said
“there are frightening implica-
tions for the future of our country
if we do not impeach the Presi-
dent of the United States.”

“If we fail to impeach,” he
said, “we will have condoned and
left unpunished a presidential
course of conduct designed to
interfere with and obstruct the
very process which he is sworn to
uphold; and we will have con-
doned and left unpunished an
abuse of power totally without
justification.”

Watergate and related scan-
dals, Butler said, constitute “a
sad chapter in American history.
But I cannot condone what I have
heard. I cannot excuse it. And I
cannot and will not stand for it.”

Rep. Richardson Preyer, D-
N.C., did not hear Butler’s
speech himself, for like many
House members not on the Ju-
diciary Committee he was
immersed in other legislative
business.

BUT HE SAID, when asked the
impact, “I heard from several
Southerners that it was very,
very good. I think it had quite an
impact.”

Preyer and Rep. Walter B.
Jones, another North Carolina
Democrat, said House members
from their area are “watching
the committee debate with rapt
attention.”

Southern Democrats, Jones
said, have one often-unnoticed
problem to contend with: A rela-
tive lack of press coverage “back
home” for Watergate and im-
peachment news.

“Our constituents,” he said,
“have not been privy to the same
volume of information we receive
here in Washington.”

PREYER SAID the nationally
televised Judiciary Committee
debate — which is demonstrating
the scope of the impeachment
case and the bipartisan support it
commands — may well influence
Southern voters.

Butler’s speech clearly had an
impact on his Virginia col-
leagues, who comprise one of the
most conservative state delega-
tions in the House.

“Obviously it will have some
influence on me and others in the
delegation,” said Rep. William C.
Wampler, R-Va., whose 9th Dis-
trict — the southwestern end of
the state — has the strongest and
longest Republican tradition of
any in the state.

“Caldwell is a man of great
integrity and ability. He is held
in very high regard as a person
and because he is a member of
the committee.”

WAMPLER SAID he personal-
ly remains undecided on the im-
peachment issue, but believes
that if five to eight committee
Republicans desert the President
it will have a lot of bearing” on
the outcome in the full House.

Rep. G. William Whitehurst, R-
Va., of Norfolk, coaceded he
^wasn t astounded” by Butler’s
very strong speech,” but said it
would nonetheless “give us all
cause f^r 3 g rea t deal of
thought. Because of Butler’s
reputation for integrity, he said,
anything he said would carrv
weight with us.” y

T .^ e P- Stanford E. Parris, R-
va., a freshmen from Fairfax
Station m the nearby 8th District
said Butler’s decision — and that
of other Republicans — “has got
to nave some impact.”

great majority of
uie Virginia delegation wants not
to impeach the President, but if
the evidence is clear and con-
vincing, they will,” he said ,

VIRGINIA source said
the delegation may well split five
“Peachment, five against
when the House vote is taken.
Pams said he suspects this is a
fair assessment.”

Parris said he is “right smack
dab in the middle” as of now
having “decided this issue IS
times in both directions.”

The Northern Virginia Republi-
can was elected in 1972 with 44
percent of the vote, beating out
three opponents. He sees an im-
peachment vote — either pro or

3m* “ no win ” proposition

“People have been writing and
calling for months, threatening
never to vote for me if I do this or
that, he said. “Very frankly I
don t care. You can’t decide it

won’t Way ° D < * uest * on > and I

“I’m doing the very best I
know how, whether my constitu-
ents like it or not/* Parris said.

ine wmte House conceded earlier
that the committee would approve
articles of impeachment, but it had
counted on Southern Democrats and
Republicans to hold down the mar-
gin.

James D. St. Clair, Mr. Nixon’s
chief impeachment counsel, has pre-
dicted the President would win his
case on the House floor. A lopsided
committee vote favoring impeach-
ment, however, would damage Mr.
Nixon s chances on the floor, where
only a majority vote is required for
impeachment.

Rep. Delbert L. Latta (R-Ohio),
one of Mr. Nixon’s strongest sun-

's strongest sup-

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ST P^REEMENT-Rep. M . Caldwell Butler (R-Va ) left

be impeached:

His spe£ h ,

MP) Wirephotos

Nixon Support Fades as Several
in GOP Call for Impeachment

Southern Democrats on Judiciary Panel Take Same Stand
and S.rongly Increase Probability of Trial for President

BY JACK NELSON and PAUL HOUSTON ,

Times Staff writers

WASHINGTON — Southern
Democrats and several Republicans
on the House Judiciary Committee
spoke passionately in behalf of im-
peachment Thursday, strongly in-
creasing the probability of House
approval and a Senate trial for Pres-
ident Nixon.

Two Southern conservatives —
Reps. Walter Flowers (D-Ala.) and
M. Caldwell Butler (R-Va.) — criti-
cized Mr; Nixon's alleged role in the
Watergate coverup and in misuse of
federal agencies. They said failure
to impeach would set a standard of
condoning misconduct by pres-
idents.

"There arb frightening implica-
tions for the future of our country if
we do not impeach the President of
the United States." "RntW coin

establish as a matter of record a
standard of conduct by the Pres-

■ ‘ w , hic t w6uld be for a11 time

a matter of public record.

If we fail to impeach, we have
condoned and left unpunished a
course of conduct totally inconsis-
tent with the reasonable expecta-
tions of the American people . . . We
will have condoned and left un-
punished a presidential course of
conduct designed to interfere with
and obstruct the very process that
he has sworn to uphold.”

The stands taken by the Southern
Democrats and by seven Republi-
cans, together with a rising senti-

uM? t u for im P eachmen t on Capitol
Hill, have seriously jeopardized Mr.
Nixon’s political future

On Statement;
Others Quiet

From Wire Dispatches

WASHINGTON — Virginia’s
congressional delegation
praised the power and “con-
science” of Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler’s impeachment
statement, but remained
publicly cautious on how they
might vote themselves.

Nonetheless, some private
assessments within the dela-
tion suggested that Butler
might carry at least four or five
other Virginia congressmen to
his position that President Nix-
on should be impeached.

Butler, the only Virginian on
the House Judiciary Commit-
tee, said he would “not stand
still” for the corruption of
presidential power revealed by
the impeachment inquiry, and
said he is inclined to vote for ar-
ticles of impeachment on
obstruction of justice and
abuse of power.

4th District said, “I hold
Caldwell Butler to be amanof
h TghTnteg r i ty and co nscience. I
am sure that what he is dolng is
interpreting the evidence as ne
gees it and to be makin g his
decision accordingly .” Daniel
said he did not know whether he

See BUTLER, Page 7

‘VERY POWERFUL’

“it_was a very p owerful
statement. ” said Rep.' G.
William Whitehurst, a
Republican from the Norfolk-
area 2nd District. But
Whitehurst said he would
*>eigli xery carefully ” other
evidence and the exact
language of the impeachment
articles before he makes up his
mind.

Rep. Robert W. Daniel of the

■p^Mjfechmond News Leader. ^ ^26, 1974.

Butler Lauded for Statement

Continued From First Page

would respond to the same
facts in the same way.

Rep. William C. Wampler, a
veteran Republican from
Bristol in the 9th District said,
have nothing but the hig hest
perso nal regard and resp prt
fo r Caldwell But le r. I am sure
that his being on the commit-
tee, he Js_j?riw to thingT we
ar en’t pri vy to.”

CALLED ‘REASONED*

A northern Virginia
Republican, Stanford Parris,
termed Butler’s remarks
’ ^reasoned. ”

^kep. Thomas N. Downing, a
Democrat from Newport
News, said he was tremendous-
ly impressed with Butler’s
statement.

‘^ifijKas_sincere and stated

Downing saidr — ~

Butler, a Nixon supporter in
normal times, told fellow
members of the House
Judiciary Committee yester-
day:

“I would be less than candid
if I did not say that my present
inclination is to support ar-
ticles incorporating my view of
the charges of obstruction of
justice and the abuse of
power.”

Butler, who is running for re
lection in the Roanoke-area6th
District, made the comment as
he took his turn among mem-

bers of the committee
presenting opening statements
in the debate over whether a
bill containing articles of im-
peachment should be reported
to the House floor.

‘ABUSE* PATTERN
Butler said he was par-
ticularly concerned the pattern
of “presidential abuse of the
power given him by the statute
and the Constitution.”
Referring to the
“manipulation” of govern-
ment agencies such as the In-
ternal Revenue Service, the
freshman Republican said:
“The evidence is clear,
direct, and convincing to me
that the President of the United
State condoned and encourag-
ed the use of the Internal
Revenue Service taxpayer
audit as a means of harassing
the President’s political
enemies.”

‘OUR SHAME*

“For years we republicans
have campaigned against cor-
ruption and misconduct in
government by the other par-
ty,” he said.

“But Watergate is our
shame. Those things happened
in a Republican administration
while we had a Republican in
the White House.

“These things happened in
our house and it is our respon-
sibility to do something to
clean it up. It is we, not the

democrats, who must
demonstrate we are a capable
of restoring the high stan-
dards” the Republicans expect
of Democrats, he said.

“The people can inquire of
us: Do you really mean what
you have said?

“There is no real evidence of
regard for what has occurred
or remorse or resolution to
change,” Butler said of the
transcripts of Nixon’s conver-
sations with his aides.

“Power seems to have cor-
rupted,” he said. “It is a sad
chapter in American History. I
cannot condone it or stand still
for it.”

He said misuse of the
Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation, Centra! In-
telligence Agency, Internal
Revenue Service and the ex-
istence of the White House
special investigations unit, or
plumbers, were evidence of
misuse of power and “evidence
of tyranny.”

Butler added that it was ap-
parent to him that the Presi-
dent participated in a continu-
ing coverup of the Watergate
scandal, “at least after the 21st
day of March 1973.”

“This is clearly a policy of
obstruction of justice which
cannot go unnoticed.”

SEES IMPLICATIONS*

Butler said, in short, power
appears to have corrupted dur-
ing the Nixon years

“This is not to suggest that
there are not many areas of our
investigation which clearly
reveal to me that some charges
do not elevate themselves to
this status of an impeachable
offense,” he said.

While noting he’d been a sup-
porter of the President, Butler
told colleagues on the commit-
tee that “there are frightening
implications for the future of
the country if we do not im-
peach the President.”

Butler, however, said he
wished to reserve his final
judgment in the matter.

FLOOD OF CALLS

His office was flooded with
telephone calls after Butler
read his statement to the com-
mittee.

“Some people said he made
them proud to be Virginians
and others called him Judas
Iscariot,” said an officer
worker.

Gail Goodson, Butler’s press
secretary, said phone calls
were either “strongly
favorable or strongly against. I
wouldn’t say there was a
preponderance of one or the
other.”

Butler, 49, was the minority
leader in the Virginia House of
Delegates before winning a
special election for Congress.
He succeeded Richard Poff,
who was named by former Gov.
Linwood Holton to the Vir? '2*
Supreme Court. /

WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA

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THIS IS A WANV EDITORIAL. YESTERDAY CALDWELL BUTLER, THE CONGRESSMAN WHO
REPRESENTS THE SIXTH DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA IN WASHINGTON, PROVED THAT HE
IS A MAN OF STRONG MORAL CHARACTER FIRST, AN AMERICAN SECOND, AND A
PARTY POLITICIAN, AT BEST, THIRD. IT SEEMS TO US THAT THIS IS THE
CORRECT ORDER OF THINGS FOR ANYBODY ELECTED TO OFFICE. IN HIS FIRST
TERM IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MR. BUTLER FOUND HIMSELF ON THE
POWERFUL JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AND THUS THE ONLY VIRGINIAN TO BE SITTING
ON IT DURING ITS MOST HISTORIC ASSIGNMENT, THE DETERMINATION OF THE
IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON. WHEN IT CAME HIS TURN TO SPEAK
YESTERDAY, MR. BUTLER, IN PART, HAD THIS TO SAY:

(Insert)

MR. BUTLER IS ONE OF THE FEW MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE TO PUT THE WELFARE
OF THE NATION HIGHEST IN HIS REASONS FOR THINKING AS HE DOES. HE AVOIDED
DISCUSSING LEGAL TECHNICALITIES ALTHOUGH HE IS A GIFTED LAWYER. REGARD-
LESS OF HOW THE PEOPLE IN HIS DISTRICT MAY FEEL ABOUT WHAT HE SAID AND
HOW HE WILL VOTE, THEY CAN BE SURE THAT THEY ARE REPRESENTED IN WASHINGTON
>BY AN AMERICAN OF THE HIGHEST INTEGRITY AND HONOR. THIS HAS BEEN A WANV
EDITORIAL. BECAUSE MR. BUTLER IS CURRENTLY A CANDIDATE FOR REELECTION,
WANV IS OFFERING EQUAL EDITORIAL TIME TO SPOKESMEN FOR HIS OPPONENTS.

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(BUTLER INSERT)

THERE ARE FRIGHTENING IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY IF
WE DO NOT IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE WE WILL
BY THIS PROCEEDING ESTABLISH AS A MATTER OF RECORD A STANDARD OF CON-
DUCT FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHICH WILL BE FOR ALL TIME
A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD. IF WE FAIL TO IMPEACH, WE WILL HAVE CONDONED
AND LEFT UNPUNISHED A COURSE OF CONDUCT TOTALLY INCONSISTENT WITH THE
REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE WILL HAVE CONDONED
AND LEFT UNPUNISHED A PRESIDENTIAL COURSE OF CONDUCT DESIGNED TO INTER-
FERE WITH AND OBSTRUCT THE VERY PROCESS WHICH HE IS SWORN TO UPHOLD,

AND WE WILL HAVE CONDONED AND LEFT UNPUNISHED AN ABUSE OF POWER TOTALLY
WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION, AND WE WILL HAVE SAID TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
THESE MISDEEDS ARE INCONSEQUENTIAL AND UNIMPORTANT.

News story 7/26/74

CONGRESSMAN M. CALDWELL BUTLER, REPUBLICAN OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT IN
VIRGINIA, WAS CLEARLY A STAR OF YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CONSIDERING IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT NIXON .

WALTER CRONKITE OF CBS NEWS, THE UNITED PRESS, THE WASHINGTON POST AND
OTHERS ALL CALLED SPECIAL ATTENTION TO BUTLER’ S DRAMATIC SPEECH IN
WHICH HE SAID " I CANNOT CONDONE WHAT I HAVE HEARD. I CANNOT EXCUSE
IT AND I CANNOT STAND STILL FOR IT.” TODAY'S POST CARRIES BUTLER'S
PICTURE IN THE CENTER OF ITS FIRST PAGE. APPARENTLY IMPEACHMENT WILL
NOT BE A MAJOR ISSUE IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RACE IN THE SIXTH DISTRICT.
BUTLER'S DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT, PAUL PUCKETT, SAYS THAT HE, TOO, WOULD
VOTE FOR IMPEACHMENT IF HE WERE IN CONGRESS RIGHT NOW.

7/26/74 - WANV News story (Add on to running Butler story)

TWO PROMINENT SHENANDOAH VALLEY REPUBLICANS BELIEVE THAT CALDWELL

BUTLER'S PRO- IMPEACHMENT POSITION WILL NOT BE HARMFUL TO HIM IN THE

NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. MARSHALL COLEMAN, GENERAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATE

FROM STAUNTON, SAYS THAT HIS RESPECT FOR THE LEGAL ABILITIES AND MORAL

WAY

.JUDGMENTS OF BUTLER IS IN NO / DIMINISHED, AND THAT HE IS SATISFIED
THAT THE SIXTH DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN IS GOING TO VOTE THE ONLY WAY
HE CAN AFTER CAREFUL REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE. LOIS KINDT, CHAIRMAN OF
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN WAYNESBORO, SAYS THAT SHE DOESN'T SEE
IMPEACHMENT AS A CAMPAIGN ISSUE, EXPECIALLY SINCE DEMOCRAT PAUL PUCKETT
HAS ALSO COME OUT IN FAVOR OF REMOVING THE PRESIDENT.

Hartford, Connecticut, Friday, July 26, 1974

REPUBLICAN REACTION — Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan,
R-Md., left, and Rep. Caldwell Butler, R-Va., listen to

the debate on impeachment during Thursday s House
Judiciary Committee meeting.

Support Eroding

By Walter Taylor

Star-News Staff Writer

President Nixon, his support eroded and crum-
bling, today faced the first impeachment vote
against an American president in more than a
century — on charges that he obstructed justice
in the Watergate investigation and otherwise
abused his high office.

As the House Judiciary Committee took up the
impeachment articles, all 21 Democrats and 7

Excerpts of Debate Statements, A-7

Republicans on the panel appeared committed to
or leaning toward a a vote recommending con-
gressional indictment of the President for consti-
tutional “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., who
shepherded the panel through a seven-month
investigation of Nixon’s fitness to remain in of-
fice, officially checked out of the camp of the non-
committed last night, telling a national television
audience that he» would urge adoption of impeach-
ment articles.

“I HAVE searched within my heart and my
conscience and searched out the facts,” he said.
“I find that the President must be found want-
ing.”

Much more damaging than Rodino’s declara-
tion to Nixon’s chances of winning exoneration,
not only in the committee but also in the full
House, were strong indications that all three
Southern Democrats and a significant number of
Republicans on the panel are prepared to support
impeachment.

Nixon’s most serious loss, in terms of votes it
could influence in the House, was Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler, a conservative Virginia Republican.

As general debate on impeachment drew to a
close, Butler stated his intention to ! support both
of the general charges against the President that
are under consideration by the committee oo-
ctmrtinn of iustice and abuse of power.

“THERE ARE frightening implications for the
future of our country if we do not impeach the
President,” he told millions of television viewers.

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». .... —

IMPEACHMENT

Continued from Page A-l

“If we fail to impeach, we
have condoned and left
unpunished a course of con-
duct totally inconsistent
with the reasonable expec-
tations of the American peo-
ple ... a presidential
course of conduct designed
to interfere with and ob-
struct the process which he
is sworn to uphold . . . and
an abuse of power totally
without justification.’ *

“Watergate is our
shame,” he said to his
Republican colleagues. “It
is our responsibility to do
what we can to clear it up.”

Meanwhile, Democrats on
the panel, ticking off al-
leged presidential mis-
deeds, aligned themselves
solidly behind an impeach-
ment push.

Said Rep. John Conyers
Jr., D-Mich.: “The Presi-
dent took the power of his
office and under the guise
of protecting and executing
the laws that he swore to
i| uphold, he abused them and '
in so doing he has
jeopardized the strength
v and integrity of the Consti-
tution and the laws of the
land and the protections
that they ought to afford all
of the people.”

Rep. Ray Thornton, D-
Ark., said: “As I have re-
\ viewed the many pages of
\ evidence which have been
[presented to us, and lis-
' tened to the witnesses who
have appeared before us, I
could not help but observe
that many of the things that
we saw . . . had happened
before. . . . But as I have
reviewed the evidence and
the testimony, it has be-
come evident to me that
while these offenses may
have existed before, I know
of no other time when they
have been systematized, or
carried on in such an
organized and directed
way.”

Rep. Jerome R. Waldie,
D-Calif., said: “. . . You
cannot look at the evidence
in this case and the totality
of what confronts us in this
case without understanding
that unless we fulfill our ob-
ligations as these fallible
human beings in this genius
of a governmental struc-
ture; our obligation and our
duty is to impeach this
president that this country
might get about doing its
business the way it should
do and pursuant to stand-
ards that have been set for
this country since its begin-
ning.”

Rep. Charles B. Rangel,

D-N.Y., said: “We don’t
hear anything about truth,
morality, the protection of
our Constitution in any of
the presidential conversa-
tions, whether they be in
the tape or whether they be
edited transcripts. But, we
hope that our nation’s White
House will never agin have
to hear all of the sordid
crimes that have been com-
mitted by the President and
other people, and I would
uphold my oath of office
again and call for the im-
peachment of a man who
has not.”

THE HISTORIC impeach-
ment debate was marked by
eloquence, both in support
of the President and in con-
demnation of him.

“I know it would be easy
to vote for impeachment,”
said Carlos J. Moorhead, R-
Calif., a soft-spoken Nixon
defender. “It is hard to be
against something that so
many people are for, when
the press is united before it,
when the magazines are,
the media of all kinds, and a
majority of the American
people apparently go in that
direction.

“But, I could not vote for
impeachment and give up
what is so important to me,
which is my own conscience
of what I believe is right
and wrong. And I believe
that this thing is wrong.”

The committee’s senior
Republican, Rep. Edward
Hutchinson of Michigan,
said the evidence has not
convinced him that the
President should be im-
peached.

“Let me just say that not
only do I not believe that
any crimes by the President
have been proved beyond a
reasonable doubt, but I do
not think the proof even ap-
proaches the lesser stand-
ards of proof which some of
my colleagues, I believe,
have injudiciously suggest-
ed we apply.”

THE IMPEACHMENT of

a president, he said, cannot
be warranted by “stacking
inferences, one upon anoth-
er, or by making demands
for information from the
President which we know
we will not, and which he
believes in principle he can-
not supply and then by
trying to draw inferences
from a refusal which we
fully anticipated before the
demands were even made.”
Rep. William S. Cohen of
Maine, one of the commit-
tee Republicans seen as
likely to vote for impeach-

ment, praised some of the
achievements of the Presi-
dent in the realm of foreign
affairs.

“I HAVE BEEN faced
with the terrible responsi-
bility of assessing the con-
duct of a President that I
voted for, believed to be the
best man to lead this coun-
try,” he said, a President
“who has made significant
and lasting contributions to-
wards securing peace in
this country, throughout the
world, but a President who
in the process by act or
acquiesence allowed the
rule of law and the Constitu-
tion to slip under the boots
of indifference and arro-
gance and abuse.”

Although there is no limit
on the total amount of de-
bate time on the impeach-
ment articles, it appeared
possible that the committee
could be ready for a vote on
at least one impeachment
article against the Presi-
dent by late today.

Various members of the
panel, working in conjunc-
tion with senior staff law-
yers, worked late last night
and early this morning in
efforts to hammer out arti-
cles acceptable to all the
lawmakers.

Under procedures worked
out earlier this week by the
committee, individual mem-
bers will be permitted to
amend or add to charges
and specifications contain-
ed in the proposed impeach-
ment bill under considera-
tion.

SEVERAL MEMBERS
said yesterday that they
would take advantage of
those provisions. For exam-
ple, Rep. Edward Mez-
vinsky, D-Iowa, said he was
planning to propose an arti-
cle charging the President
with underpayment of his
federal income tax during
his first term in office.

Rep. Robert McClory, R-
111., was expected to push
for a separate impeachment

article relating to Nixon’s
refusal to honor committee
subpoenas in the impeach-
ment probe, currently listed
as a specification in the
general abuse of power
charge.

The final wording of the
draft articles could weigh
on the final outcome of the
impeachment voting. At
least two Republicans be-
lieved to be leaning toward
a recommendation for im-
peachment — McClory and
Rep. Harold V. Froehlich of
Wisconsin — have said they
will not commit their votes
either for or against im-
peachment until after pro-
posed amendments are in
their final form.

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Profile
Of Butler

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler, who said
Thursday he is inclined to cast
his House Judiciary Committee
swing vote to impeachment of
President Nixon, was one of
Nixon’s most consistent sup-
porters up until last year.

Secretaries in his office said
the reaction was mixed with
many people praising his com-
ments but some angrily taking
out their frustrations against
his stand by bawling out secre-
taries who answered the
phones.

A staff aide said Butler does
not really know what his
district’s consensus on im-
peachment is even though it
holds some of the most con-
servative Republican areas in
the state.

The district, including
Butler’s home city of Roanoke,
cast the state’s heaviest margin
for Nixon’s re-election in 1972,
72.7 per cent.

Rep. Caldwell Butler, R-Va.

“In short, power appears to
have corrupted. It is a sad
chapter in American history,
but 1 cannot condone what I
have heard; 1 cannot excuse it,
and I cannot and will not stand
still for it.

This is not to suggest that
there are not many areas of
our investigation which clearly
reveal to me that some charges
do not elevate themselves to
this status of an impeachable
offense.

While 1 am seriously con-
cerned about the manipu-
lations of the deed of gift of
vice presidential papers to the
United States, 1 have real res-
ervations as to whether the
degree of presidential involve-
ment makes him guilty of an
impeachable tax fraud.

But I do want to associate
myself with the remarks of the
gentleman from Illinois, Mr.
Railsback, and others and par-
ticularly the careful manner in

which he reviewed th»
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President’s response to the in-
formation which came to him
in his official capacity, and his
participation in the continuing
policy of coverup, at least after
the 21st day of March 1973. This
is clearly a policy of obstruc-
tion of justice which cannot go

unnoticed.

I am concerned about the
pattern of presidential abuse
of the power given him by
statute and the Constitution.
The manipulation of the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation,
the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy, the Internal Revenue Ser-
vice and indeed the existence
of the White House Plumbers
are frightening in their im-

plications for the future of
America.

The misuse of power is the
very essense of tyranny.

The evidence is clear, direct,
and convincing to me that the
President of the United States
condoned and encouraged the
use of the Internal Revenue
Service taxpayer audit as a
means of harassing the
President’s political enemies.

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While I still reserve my final
judgment, 1 would be less than
candid if 1 did not now say thlit

my present inclination is to
support articles incorporating
my view of the charges of ob-

struction of justice and abuse
of power; but there will be no
joy in it for me.”

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Text of Rep. Butler's Speech

Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Following is the
text of Roanoke Republican Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler's remarks to the House Judi-
ciary Committee Thursday:

Let me express first, Mr. Chairman,
to you and the other members of this com-
mittee the high regard I have come to
have during these proceedings, for all of
you.

While this has been a most distasteful
experience for us all, I share great pride in
the manner in which the membership of
this committee with few exceptions has
conducted itself in these deliberations. I
want to express my personal appreciation
to the staff for monumental task which
they have performed with such diligence
over these months, and I regret the unfor-
tunate misunderstanding which developed
between Mr. (Albert) Jenner and the mi-
nority members. We are all indebted to
him for bringing his great experience and
talent to bear upon this investigation, and
for his hard work and fine presentation to
us.

I am particularly proud of the work of
my fellow townsman, Mr. Sam Garrison,
who, as minority counsel restored much
balance to the final week of our delibera-
tion.

Likewise, I would like to express once
more the pride that I share in the signifi-
cant accomplishments of the administra-
tion of Richard Nixon. I have worked with
him in every national campaign in which
he has taken part and indeed there are
those who believe I would not be here to-
day if it were not for our joint effort in
1972. And I am deeply grateful for the
many kindnesses and courtesies he has
showTi me over the years. I am not un-
mindful of the loyalty I owe him. I men-
tion this, Mr. Chairman, so that you may
be aware of how distasteful this proceed-
ing is for me as it must have been for ev-
ery member of this committee.

One more thing: I have a word for my
colleagues on this side of the aisle and to
my Republican friends who may be listen-
ing and for my colleague from Iowa
(Republican Rep. Wiley Mayne) who is
concerned about the effect impeachment
will have for the Republican party.

For years we Republicans have cam-
paigned against corruption and miscon-
duct in the administration of the
government of the United States by the
other party. Indeed, in my first political
campaign in 1952, Trumanism was the ve-
hicle that carried Dwight Eisenhower to
the White House. And, somehow or other,
we have found the circumstances to bring
that issue before the American people in
every national campaign.

But Watergate is our shame. Those
things happened in the Republican admin-
istration while we had a Republican in the
White House and every single person con-
victed to date has one way or the other
owed allegiance to the Republican party.

We cannot indulge ourselves the luxu-
dr the miscon-

duct of our own people. These things have'
happened in our House and it is our re-
sponsibility to do what we can to clear it
up. It is we, not the Democrats, who must
demonstrate that we are capable of en-
forcing the high standards we would set
for them.

I agree with the sentiments often ex-
pressed today and yesterday that the Con-
gress of the United States and each
member is indeed being tested at this mo-
ment, but the American people may rea-
sonably inquire of the Republican party,
“Do we really mean what we say?”

My colleague, the gentleman from
California, Mr. (Republican Charles E.)
Wiggins, in his very able opening remarks
^f this morning, reminds us once more

that we must measure the conduct of the Consider the case of (CBS Newsman)
President of the United States against the, Daniel Shorr. In a moment of euphoria on

standards imposed by law in which he is
eminently correct.

I would like to share with you for a
moment some observations I have with
reference to their standards.

Impeachment and trial in the Senate
is the process by which we determine
whether the President of the United States
has measured up to the standards of con-
duct which the American people are reas-
suredly entitled to expect of him.

The conduct which the American peo-
ple are reasonably entitled to expect of the
President of the United States is spelled
out in part in our constitution and in part
in our statutes.

We are particularly grateful to our
colleague from New York, Congressman
(Republican Hamilton) Fish, for his^ex-
position on the duties imposed upon the
President of the United States by our con-
stitution.

It is my judgment also that the stan-
dard of conduct which the American peo-
ple are reasonably entitled to expect of
their President is established in part by ex-
perience and precedent. That is one rea-
son why I am so concerned by what has
been revealed to us by our investigation.

It will be remembered that only a few
hours ago the gentleman from Iowa, Mr.
(Republican Wiley) Mayne, has argued
that we should not impeach because of
comparable misconduct in previous ad-
ministrations.

There are frightening implications for
the future of our country if we do not im-
peach the President of the United States.

Because we will by this impeachment
proceeding be establishing a standard of
conduct for the President of the United
States which will for all time be a matter
of public record.

If we fail to impeach, we have con-
doned and left unpunished a course of con-
duct totally inconsistent with the
reasonable expectations of the American
people;

We will have condoned and left unpun-
ished a presidential course of conduct de-
signed to interfere with and obstruct the
very process which he is sworn to uphold;
and we will have condoned and left unpun-
ished an abuse of power fatally without
justification.

And we will have said to the American
people: “These deeds are inconsequential
and unimportant.”

If at the conclusion of my remarks,
Mr. Chairman, I have some time remain-
ing, I will endeavor to respond to at least a
part of the earlier commentary on the evi-
dence which must have a bearing on what
this Congress shall eventually do.

The people of the United States are en-
titled to assume that their President is
telling the truth.

The pattern of misrepresentation and
half-truths that emerges from our investi-
gation reveals presidential policy cynical-
ly based on the premise that the truth

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Air Force 1, presidential aides called upon
the FBI to investigate this administration
critic. Upon revelation, presidentiaUaides
fabricated and the President affirmed that.
Shorr was being investigated for possible
federal appointment-nothing could be
further from the truth.

Let me observe that throughout the
extensive transcripts made available to us
of intimate presidential conversation and
discussion there is no real evidence or re-
gret for what occurred, or remorse, or
resolution to change and precious little
reference to, or concern for, constitutional
responsibility or reflection upon the basic
obligations of the office of the presidency.

In short, power appears to have cor-
rupted. It is a sad chapter in American
history, but I cannot condone what I have
heard; I cannot excuse it, and I cannot and
will not stand still for if.

This is not to suggest that there are
not many areas of our investigation which
clearly reveal to me that some charges do
not elevate themselves to this status of an
impeachable offense. I am satisfied that
the presidential misrepresentation with
reference to the Cambodian— Is excusable
because of the congressional and security
council involvement in the decision mak-
ing itself. The impoundment of funds by
the office of the president is clearly an
exercise of administrative discretion,
which is now sharply curtailed by the Con-
gress itself. While the manipulation of the
decision to raise milk price supports by
the President’s advisors in order to reaf-
firm the pledge of substantial campaign
contributions is reprehensible, and border-
ing on bribery itself, the evidence as to the
President’s direct involvement has no-
where been established to the extent, in
my judgment, to warrant a charge of im-
peachment.

While ! am seriously c oncerned jabout
the manipulations of the deed of girt of
vice presidential papers to the United
States, I have real reservations as to
whether the degree of presidential in-
volvement makes him guilty of an im-
peachable tax fraud.

But I do want to associate myself with
the remarks of the gentleman from Illi-
nois, Mr. (Republican Tom) Railsback,
•and others and particularly the careful
manner in which he reviewed the Presi-
dent’s response to the information which
came to him in his official capacity, and
his participation in the continuing policy
of coverup, at least after the 21st day of
March 1973. This is clearly a policy of ob-
struction of justice which cannot go unnot-
iced.

Likewise, I am concerned about the
pattern of presidential abuse of power giv-
en him by the statute and the constitution.
The manipulation of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Central Intelligence
Agency, the Internal Revenue Service and j
indeed the existence of the White House j
plumbers are frightening in their implica- j

TOMrtase of Richard Klein-

dienst, nominee for the attorney general
of the United States. The President had
told him in unmistakable terms that he
was not to appeal the ITT case, but before
the Senate of the United States Mr. Kleih-
dienst explicitly denied any effort by the
President to influence him in this regard.
The President, having knowledge of this,
affirmed to the American people his con-
tinuing confidence in this man.

The record is replete with official
presidential misrepresentation of non-in-
volvement, and representations of investi-
gations and reports never made, if indeed
undertaken at all. There are two refer-
ences to a Dean report that we have not
seen.

The misuse of power is Uie very "ess-
ence of tyranny.

The evidence is clear, direct, and con-
vincing, that the President of the United
States condoned and encouraged the use of
the Internal Revenue Service taxpayer,
audit as a means of harassing the Presi-
dent’s political enemies.

And consider, if you will, the frighten-
ing implications of that for a free society.

While I still reserve my final judg-
ment, I would be less than candid if I did
not say that my present inclination is to
support articles incorporating my view of
the charges of obstruction of justice and
abuse of power; but there will be no;

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to take part
in farm meetw.-

WASHINGTON - Rep. Wil-
liam Wampler of Virginia’s
Ninth District, the ranking Re-
publican member of the House
Agriculture Committee, will
participate in the Farm Con-
ference to be held by Sixth
District Rep. M. Caldwell But-
ler Aug. 5.

The conference will take
place at the McCormick Farm
near Steeles Tavern.

A spokesman in Butler’s of-
fice said the event will get un-
der way at 10 a.m. and con-
clude with a free barbeque
luncheon at noon.

Also taking part in the con-
ference will be Rep. J. Kenneth
Robinson and an official of the
U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture.

Butler said he was “ex-
tremely pleased that a person
with as extensive background
in farm and agriculture-busi-
ness legislation as Bill
Wampler will be present at our
conference.”

Wampler, who lives in
Bristol, formerly held the top
minority seat on the Agricul-
ture Committee’s Dairy and
Poultry Subcommittee. He was
first elected to Congress in 1952
and following a defeat in 1954
was re-elected in 1966 and each
subsequent congressional elec-
tion.

Butler
Gets GOP

Support

Two Lynchburg Republican
leaders said Friday they will
continue to support S tth Dis
trict Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
regardless of his decision re-
garding impeachment of Presi

dent Nixon. Vralin

Thev are George H. Srann
jr., chairman of Butler’s re-
election campaign in the “ty ,
and Carroll Pieman .chair-
man of Lynchburg City Re

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ability e and judgment. I feel he
to a man who has seen and
heard the witnesses and
evidence and I will abide by

hi Freeman said he does not
feel it is proper for him to
speak for the City Republican
Committee as a who ,
because, “there are varying
degrees of opinion on the pros
and cons of impeachment

By DONALD M. ROTHBERG

WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Nixon’s defenders on the House Judi-
ciary Committee launched a last ditch
counterattack Friday night aimed at
section-by-section dismantling of an
impeachment article accusing Nixon
with involvement in the Watergate

cover-up.

Rep. Charles Sandman, RN.J.,
started the drive with a motion to
strike the charge that Nixon lied to
investigators about the affair.

Sandman said similar attempts

would follow to drop each of the other
eight allegations included in the im-
peachment article.

Vote Delayed

There appeared little chance for a

vote before today.

Sandman and Rep. Charles E. Wig-
gins, R-Calif., led the anti impeach-
ment bloc that contended the allega-
tions lacked enough detail to permit
the President to defend himself.

itf^the backers of the article, ap-
parVB holding a bipartisan majority
on the 38 member committee, replied
that the President and his counsel
were fully familar with the charges.

Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, DN.Y.,
said the opponents of the article were
focusing on “a really phony issue.”

Ample Votes

Sandman, who acknowledged that
there were ample votes to send the
impeachment article to the House
floor, said, “A simpe parkingkticket
has to be specific ... You say that
doesn’t apply to the President? Why
that is ridiculous.”

Rep. Barbara Jordan, D-Tex., said
that contentions such as those by
Sandman and Wiggins were ‘‘phantom
arguments, bottomless arguments.”
She said that “if we have not afforded
the President of the United States due
process ... then there is no due process
to be found anywhere.

As the debate dragged on and
grew more bitter, Chairman Peter W.
Rodino Jr., D-N.J., called for order and
said:

“This is serious enough that to
indulge in parliamentary maneuvers
to delay a decision on this important
question only serves to tell the people
that we are afraid to meet this issue.”

Then Rodino called for a show of
hand of the members who wanted to
use their allotted five minutes to
speak on the motion. Twenty members
raitfktheir hands.

^Hrouldn’t it be a damning indict-
ment after all this time and all this
money if we were unable to state the
case with any specificity?” asked Wig-
gins.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House
Judiciary Committee pressed toward a
vote late Friday on an article of im-
peachment charging President Nixon

with participating in the Watergate
cover-up. The President’s defenders
immediately attacked it as lacking de-
tail.

Whatever its final form, an im-
peachment recommendation seemed
certain.

“Wouldn’t it be a damning indict-
ment after all this time and all this
money if we were unable to state the
case with any specificity?” asked Rep.
Charles F. Wiggings, R-Calif., a hard-
line opponent of impeachment.

Meeis Test

“I think this article meets the test”
said John Doar, chief counsel for the
impeachment inquiry in response to a
question from chairman Peter W.
Rodino Jr., D-N.J.

The committee moved through
this climactic phase of its impeach-
ment deliberations with each of the 38
members receiving five minutes to
state his views on the pending article,
whiph charged the President with nine
counts of obstruction of justice.

Once again, the panel scheduled a
night session during prime broadcast
hours after meetings in* the morning
and afternoon as well. The final round
of the day was due to begin at 8 p.m.
EDT.

The debate was consumed almost
entirely by the dispute over detail —
rather than whether the charges
themselves are valid.

Supporters of the article noted
that the President’s lawyer partici-
pated in all sess'ons during which the
committee received ila evidence and
many Democrats cited the material on
which the allegations were based. In
addition, they pointed out that a de-
tailed committee report would accom-
pany any articles of impeachment the
panel approved.

Little Weakening

There was little indication in the
debate of any weakening in the
bipartisan support for impeachment.
It appeared that as many as seven
Republicans would join the 21 Demo-

crats in recommending Nixon’s re-
moval from office.

Rep. Harold V. Froehlich, RWis.,
was the only wavering member.

“I am ready ... if the case is put in
proper form and the proper shape to
vote for an article of impeachment,”
said Froehlich.

“But I don’t think that the articles
placed before us are in enough detail
to bring me to that conclusion today.”

Rodino, who had delayed the start
of both the morning and afternoon
sessions to try in private to hash out
the most acceptable wording, pointed
out that there are few precedents to
rely on and that in the case of Presi-
dent Andrew Johnson, the only other
presidential impeachment, the articles
were drafted after he was impeached
by the House.

The revised article charging the
President with obstructing the Water-
gate investigation was offered by Rep.
Paul Sarbanes, D-Md.

A revision of Donohue’s second

See Impeachment, A-8, Col. 1

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Comment guarded
on stand by Butler

RICHMOND (AP)— While ob-
servers in Virginia were sur-
prised by Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler’s call for the impeach-
ment of President Nixon,
almost everyone to the man
said it was hard to pass
judgment on Butler since he’s
privy to more information on
the subject.

The repercussions from
Butler’s statement before the
House Judicary Committee on
Thursday were continuing to
flow freely through the cor-
ridors of the State Capitol here
Friday, and throughout
Butler’s 6th District in Western
Virginia.

Much of the speculatioh cen-
tered not so much on the prin-
ciple of Butler’s statement, but
on the question of what affect
his position will have on his
bid for re-election and on the
Republican party of Virginia.

“I don’t think it will have
any particular impact” on
Butler’s party standing, said
Richard D. Obenshain, state
Republican party chairman.

Obenshain, who said he be-
lieved now that President Nix-
on is likely to be impeached,
explained the difficulty he had
in reacting to Butler’s
statement calling for impeach-
ment:

“I think it’s just impossible
for anyone who’s outside that
incredibly emotional at-
mosphere of the Judiciary
committee to pass judgment
on Congressman Butler’s posi-
tion and statement..,” he said.

A similar view was shared
by Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr., a
supporter of the President in
recent yearns and, at the behest
of Obenshain and other con-
servatives, a recent convert to
the Republican party.

Godwin said he did not nec-
essarily agree with Butler’s
statement on impeachment,
but conceded the congressman
has access to more information
on the specifics of the case.

The governor, however, re-
iterated his belief that the
President ought to be guaran-
teed the same presumption of
innocence that would be af-

forded to any other citizen of
this country.

Other political figures were
even more guarded in com-
menting succinctly on Butler’s
statement.

U. S. Sen. William L. Scott,
R-Va., said through a spokes-
man from his Washington of-
fice that it would be improper
for him to analyze or comment
on Butler’s statement since he
very well could find himself a
juror in a Senate trial of the
President.

Reaction to Butler’s
statement in his home district
was mixed, although many of-
ficials shared Obenshain and
Godwin’s view that it was dif-
ficult to criticize the statement
when Butler had access to
more information than they
did.

However, Butler’s opponent
in the congressional race,
Roanoke County Sheriff Paul

Puckett, suggested Butler took
the stand as a matter of politi-
cal expediency.

Meanwhile, Butler said in
Washington Friday that his
impeachment stand might
have been “too strong” but
said he felt he no longer could
delay in taking a position.

“I may have put it (his an-
nouncement) too strong, but
there’s no such thing as a weak
impeachment vote,” he said.

In drafting his statement
Thursday morning, Butler
said, “It appeared the thing to
do was to talk all around it
without exactly expressing it
(his decision), but as I wrote
and toyed around with the
speech I found it just wasn’t
my style.”

But he said if more informa-
tion comes up that would
change his mind, “I’ll just have
to change my vote and admit
it.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler, R-Va., ad*
mitted Friday that his announ-
cement he would vote for the im-
peachment of President Nixon
may have been “too strong” but '
said he felt he no longer could
delay in taking a stand.

Butler, in an angry denuncia-
tion of President Nixon’s role in
the Watergate cover-up and
alleged misuse of power, told
fellow members on the House
Judiciary Committee Thursday
that he would support two ar-
ticles of impeachment.

“I felt that having gone
through the agonizing process of
arriving at my decision, I owed
my constituents the courtesy of
saying what I had concluded,**
k he said Friday.

But the 6th District
Republican said if subsequent
information comes up that
would change his mind, “I’ll
just have to change my vote and
admit it.”

No Weak Vote

Butler said that in the context
of the House Judiciary Commit-
tee’s histbric impeachment
debate, “I may have put it [his
announcement] too strong, but
there is no such thing as a weak
impeachment vote.” »

\ ,

Butler said he had spent a long
period arriving at his decision
and made up his mind over the
weekend. He said he had talked
with his wife, June, about.

In drafting his statement
Thursday morning, Butler said,

“It appeared the thing to do was
to talk all around it without ex-
actly expressing it [his
decision], but as I wrote and
toyed around with the speech I
found it just wasn’t my style.

“It appeared that this was the
way to do it, although it may
turn out to have been wrong.”

The reaction to Butler’s
speech Thursday afternoon was
immediate.

In the halls outside the com-
mittee room and in the
Republican cloak room, mem-
bers of Congress congratulated
Butler on his stand and by-
passers stopped to shake his
hand.

In his offices a few hundred
yards away, the telephones rang
constantly. '

Some of the cqlls were com-
plimentary, while others
weren’t. And some callers, who
refused to identify themselves
were said to have been abusive
and, in some cases, obscene.

On the political front, his
statement calling for Nixon’s
ouster sparked comment from
leading political figures in the
state ranging from the gover-
nor’s office to the state
chairman of the Republican
party.

“I think it’s just impossible
for anyone who’s outside that in-
credibly emotional atmosphere
of the Judicary committee to
pass judgment on Congressman
Butler’s statement . . said

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Richard D. Obenshain, the con-
servative chairman of the state
Republican party.

. . And while many people
will disagree with his con-
clusion, most Virginians
respect an individual’s right to
maks his own personal
decision.”

Gov. Mitts E. Godwin Jr., a
converted Republican, said he
did not “necessarily agree”
with Butler’s statement, but
that it was a fine statement.

Godwin, who on occasion has
been summoned to the White
House for personal con-
sultations with Nixon, said he
felt sure Butler was speaking
his conviction. The governor
said he was reluctant to com-
ment furthersince “Butler, as a
member of the committee, has
access to many more facts.”

Godwin said he continued to
give the President the
“presumption of innocence,”
which, the governor once said
should be given to the President
as it would be to any other
citizen.

Scott Declines

Freshman U. S. Sen. William
L. Scott declined to give a com-
ment on Butler’s remarks. A
spokesman for the Republican
senator said it appears that the
House Judiciary Committee
will adopt a resolution of im-
peachment, and added that
Scott would not comment
because he may end up a j uror in
a Senate trial of the President.

Not unexpectedly, the shar-
pest criticism in the Roanoke
Valley area to Butler’s stand
came from his opponent in the
congressional race there.

Roanoke City Sheriff Paul
Puckett, when asked about
Butler’s statement said;
“Wasn’t it expected?”

Puckett added “It’s hardly
anything you’d expect Mr.
Butler to be against at election
time.” _

THE NEWS, Lynchburg, Va., Sat., July 27, 1974

Debate Goes On

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article was expected to be submitted

latG As soon as debate began on the
substitute offered by Sarbanes, Re-
publican Reps. Charles E. Wiggins of
California and Charles Sandman of
New Jersey, and Edward Hutchinson
of Michigan, attacked it as still too

Va§U 'It does not set forth with the
specific detail, the exact incidents
upon which any criminal indictment
would have to lay,” said Hutchinson,
the ranking Republican on the com-

The article charged the President
“made it his policy ... to ... obstruct the

investigation” of the Watergate break-

in. “When was the policy declared,
asked Wiggins. - „

“It dates back to June 17, 1972,

replied Sarbanes. .

“When 7 ” repeated Wiggins, de-
manding that Sarbanes be more
specific about the date such a policy
was declared. “We’re talking about a
policy of the President of the United

States.” . 0 _ rtll

Sandman took up the same argu-
ment and then asked:

“Does the President have any less
rights pertaining todue process than a
common criminal?”

Democrats replied that the
charges were readily understandable
to the President and his attorney and
that if approved, a bill of particulars
would be available to Nixon.

Any articles of impeachment ap-
proved by the committee would go to
the full House where a majority vote
would be required to formally im-
peach the President and precipitate a
Senate trial. The articles could be
amended by the House.

A two-thirds vote of the Senate
would be required for conviction and
removal from office.

Motion Rejected
Before turning to consideration of
the articles, the committee rejected by
a vote of 27 to 11, a motion from Rep.
Robert McClory of Illinois, second-
ranking Republican on the panel, to
delay the debate in the hope of obtain-
ing subpoenaed tapes from President
Nixon.

Ten Republicans and one Demo-
crat Rep. James Mann of South Caro-
lina’ supported McClory’s proposal.

“I would press more vigorously for
this if I had any assurance they (the
tapes) would be made available, sai
McClory. “I have the strong feeling
there is no intention to make This
material available to the committee
Rodino agreed, saying that in light
of the President’s past refusals to de-
liver evidence the McClory scheme
was both “idle and futile.

McClory based his motion on the
fact that the Supreme CoutUruled 8 to
0 earlier in the wf .k that Nixon was
required toobe a subpoena demand-
ing tapes of 64 conversations for

evidence in the Watergate cover-up

At a hearing in U.S. District Court,
James D. St. Clair, the President’s
chief Watergate lawyer, agreed to give
special prosecutor Leon Jaworski the
tapes of 20 conversations by next Tues-
day and to speed work on delivery of
44 others.

The Judiciary Committee has sub-
poenaed 63 of those 64 conversations.

‘ In his opening statement Wednes-
day night, McClory did not say how he
planned to vote, but he subsequently
disclosed he was drafting an article of
impeachment citing many of the same
charges included in the proposals of-
fered by Donohue.

During debate on his motion for
delay, McClory also disclosed he
planned to call for Nixon s impeach-
ment because of his refusal to obey
eight committee subpoenas demand-
ing tapes of 147 conversations.

The other Republicans considered
likely to vote for one or more articles
of impeachment were Reps. Tom Rail-
sback of Illinois, Hamilton Fish Jr. of
New York, Lawrence J. Hogan of Mar-
yland, M. Caldwell Butler of Virginia,
William Cohen of Maine, and Harold
V. Froehlich of Wisconsin.

Hogan and Butler flatly declared
their intention to support im-
peachmenipit their opening
statements.

All 21 Democrats are considered
certain to vote for impeachment.

Before the committee as it began
this phase of its debate were
Donohue’s two proposed articles of
impeachment and his separate cover-
ing resolution.

The resolution, which would be
approved automatically upon approval
of any single article of impeachment,
simply reads:

“RESOLVED, that Richard M. Nix-
on, President of the United States, is
impeached for high crimes and misde-
meanors, and that the following
articles of impeachment be exhibited
to the Senate:

“Articles of impeachment ex-
hibited by the House of Represent-
atives of the United States of America
in the name of itself and of all of the
people of the United States of Ameri-
ca, in maintenance and support of its
impeachment against hiin f° r bigh
crimes and misdemeanors.

Following that resolution were the
' two articles, the first citing nine ex-
amples of presidential conduct related
to the Watergate cover-up, vhile the
second contained eight allegations of
abouse of power.

The revision offered by Sarbanes
replaced the cover-up articles and also
contained nine specific allegations.

The articles were the end product
of the committee’s impeachment in-
quiry which got under way last
January under the immediate super-
vision of chief counsel John Doar and
minority counsel Albert Jenner.

Panel Debates Cover-Up Issue

From Page 1

impeachment were Reps. Tom Railsback
of Illinois, Hamilton Fish i Jr .of New York,
Lawrence J. Hogan of Maryland, M. Cald-
well Butler of Virginia, William Cohen of
Maine, and Harold V. Froehlich of Wiscon-

Sm ‘ Hogan and Butler flatly declared their
intention to support impeachment in their

opening |^ at ^ [locrats are considered cer-
tain to vote for impeachment.

Before the committee as it began this
• phase of its debate were Donohue’s two
proposed articles of impeachment and his

separate covering resolution.

The resolution, which would be ap-
proved automatically upon approval of
any single article of impeachment, simply

“RESOLVED, that Richard M. Nixon,
President of the United States, is im-
peached for high crimes and misdemean-
ors, and that the following articles of
impeachment be exhibited to the Senate:
“Articles of impeachment exhibited
by the House of Representatives of the
United States of America in the name of
onri rrf oil nf thp ncoole of the United

States of America, in maintenance and
support of its impeachment against him
for high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Following that resolution were the
two articles, the first citing nine examples
of presidential conduct related to the Wa-
tergate cover-up, while the second con-
tained eight allegations of abouse of

^ The revision offered by Sarbanes re- .
placed the cover-up articles and also con-
tained nine specific allegations.

They included:

—“Making false or misleading state-
ments to lawfully authorized investigative
officers and employes of the United
States:

—“Withholding relevant and material

evidence or information ... .

“Approving, condoning, acquiescing

in” false statements given to various
bodies and agencies that investigated the
Watergate break-in and coverup;

—“Interfering or endeavoring to in-
terfere with the conduct of investigations
by the Department of Justice of the United
PYwim-al Bureau of Investiga-

tion. and the Office of Watergate Special
Prosecution force:

— “Approving, condoning and ac-
quiescing in'* payments of hush money to
the Watergate break-in defendants.

—“Endeavoring to misuse the Central j
Intelligence Agency ...”

-Giving confidential investigative in- !
formation received from the Justice De- ,
partment to persons who were subjects of t
the probe;

—“Making false or misleading public
statements for the purpose of deceiving
the people of the United States into believ-
ing that a thorough and complete investi-
gation had been conducted” into
Watergate and the involvement of White
House personnel in the scandal;

—Leading the Watergate break-in de-
fendants to believe they would receive fa-
vored treatment if they lied or remained
silent about their knowledge of the in-
volvement of Nixon campaign committee
officials in Watergate.

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Amendments hinder
committee progress

WASHINGTON (AP) - The
House Judiciary Committee
makes another effort today to
reach a vote on an article of
impeachment accusing Presi-
dent Nixon with obstruction of
ustice in the Watergate cover-
P*

After a wearying 12-hour
committee session on Friday,
Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr.,
D-N.J., said he will meet Sun-
day, too, if it appears possible
the committee could wind up
its proceedings in one more
day.

Today’s session, which be-
gins at noon, again will be
heard and seen over national
radio and television.

On the strength of a 27-11 test
vote that defeated the first of
what is expected to be a num-
ber of Republican amendments
aimed at weakening the pro-
posed article, it seems certain
the committee will recom-
mend Nixon’s impeachment
when it gets the opportunity.

A simple majority vote on
any article of impeachment by
the committee would send the
matter to the House floor. A

simple majority vote in the
House then would forward the
bill to the Senate, where a
twothirds vote is needed to re-
move the President from of-
fice.

The panel was stymied Fri-
day by Rep. Charles W. Sand-
man Jr., R-N.J., who said the
article was too vague. He tried
without success to delete one of
its provisions charging Nixon
with making false or mislead-
ing statements to federal in-
vestigators.

The defeat of Sandman’s
motion came after a full day of
argument over whether arti-
cles of impeachment need spell
out the charges being brought
against Nixon.

The result appeared close to
being a forecast of how a vote
on the article itself might turn
outJRep. Henry P. Smith III,

R-N.Y., who voted against
Sandman’s motion, said he also
will vote against the article but
was willing to leave it intact
now because other Republicans
are for it.

Five other Republicans voted
with all 21 Democrats to defeat
Sandman. Rep. Harold V.
Froehlich, R-Wis., another who
voted to strike the provision,
said he might end up voting for
the article if it includes specif-
ic evidence.

Another significant vote to
keep the article intact was cast
by Rep. Walter Flowers of Ala-
bama, the only Democrat re-
garded as a possible vote
against impeachment.

There are eight other sepa-
rate provisions in the article
and Sandman said either he or

See DETAILS, Pg. 2, Col. 4

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From Page 1

some other Republican oppo-
nent of impeachment will offer
separate motions to strike
them. If the full time allowable
on each one were used, it would
take another 24 hours to get to 1
a vote on the article.

The strong majority in favor *
of the article shown by the first
vote, however, may encourage
Rodino to use his powers as
chairman to limit debate on the
other motions.

Rodino clearly was dis-
mayed by the spectacle the
committee was creating on
television after two days of ex-
emplary behavior in its opening
round of impeachment debate.

He took Sandman and his Re-
publican allies to task.

“Indulging in a parlia-
mentary maneuver to delay a
decision in this very important
matter only serves to tell the
people we are afraid to meet
the issue,” Rodino said.

Rodino said the factual data
supporting the articles would
be included in a committee re-
port accompanying any articles
it sends to the House floor.

Rep. Paul S. Sarbanes, D-
Md., sponsor of the article, said
it did not include itemized
events because it deals with a
course of conduct spread over
many months. ■

Rep. Jerome R. Waldie, D-
Calif., said details were hard to
come by because the cover-up
policy was concealed carefully
and Nixon has withheld evi-
dence the committee requested.

“To demand we produce a
parchment scroll of a presiden-
tial declaration that on such
and such a day a policy of cov-
er-up was established is really
quite unrealistic,” he said.

Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-
N.Y., accused the supporters of
Sandman’s argument of raising
“a phony issue.” Rep. Barbara
Jordan, D-Tex., said they were
presenting phantom arguments.

Rep. James R. Mann, D-S.C.,
charged that the whole issue
had been raised in the manner
of an effort to influence the
American public through tele-
vision.

Mann said he was astonished
that any committee members
would say Nixon would be
forced to undergo a Senate trial
without knowing the full
charges a gainst him.

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CAPJTQL FALLOUT.

Stand By Butler
Evokes Surprise

RICHMOND (AP) - Political
fallout filled this State Capitol
Friday, a full 24 hours after
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, R-Va.,
angrily denounced Nixon ad-
ministration policies and gave
tentative support to the im-
peachment of the President.

Butler, a first term con-
gressman and member of the
House Judiciary Committee,
surprised observers here and
in Washington by committing,
himself to support of two
articles of impeachment
against the President, unless
further evidence changes his
mind.

The reaction in Virginia
generally was one of surprise,
as most political observers, and
apparently some of Butler’s
constitutents in the 6th Dis-
trict, felt he wasn’t ready yet
to call for Nixon’s impeach-
ment.

R)r his part, Butler ad-
mitted Friday that he had feel-
ings of doubt that his an-
nouncement was too strongly
worded, but said he felt he no
longer could delay in taking a
stand.

“I felt that having gone
through the agonizing process
of arriving at my decision, I
owed my constituents the
courtesy of saying what I had
concluded.”

Reaction Swift
Reaction to the statement
was swift on the home front, as
Butler’s congressional office
was deluged with telephone
calls, some of which were
negative and even obscene.

On the political front, his
statement calling for Nixon’s
ouster shocked leading politi-
cal figures in the state ranging
from the governor’s office to
the state chairman of the Re-
publican party.

“I think it’s just impossible
for anyone who’s outside that
incredibly emotional at-
mosphere of the Judicary com-
mittee to pass judgment on
Congressman Butler’s
statement..,” said Richard D.
Obenshain, the conservative
chairman of the state Re-
publican party.

“...And while many people
will disagree with his con-
clusion, most Virginians re-
spect an individual’s right to
make his own personal de-
cision.”

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said he was reluctant to com-
ment further since “Butler as a
member of the committee has
access to many more facts.

Neither Godwin nor
Obenshain would comment on
whether Bulter’s statement
would result in harmful politi-
cal consequences for the
freshman congressman.

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converted Republican, said he
did not “necessarily agree”
with Butler’s statement, but
agreed that it was a fine
statement.

Godwin, who on occasion
has been summoned to the
White House for personal con-
sultations with Nixon, said he
felt sure Butler was speaking
his conviction. The governor

Rep Lawrence J. Hogan, R-Md., left,
and Rep. Caldwell Butler, R-Va., listen
to the general debate on the question of
impeachment during Thursday night’s
session of the House Judiciary Com-
mittee in Washington. Hogan has called

for the impeachment of President
Nixon. Butler, during his address before
the committee said, “There are
frightening implications for the future of
our country if we do not impeach the
president.” (AP Wirephoto)

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Comes As Surprise

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mittee to pass judgment on
Congressman Butler’s position
and statement..,” he said.

A similar view was shared by
Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr., a
supporter of the President in

RICHMOND (AP)— While ob-
servers in Virginia were sur-
prised by Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler’s call for the impeach-
ment of President Nixon al-
most everyone to the man said
it was hard to pass judgment
on Butler since he’s privy to
more information on the sub-
ject.

The repercussions from But-
^ er s statement before the
House Judicary Committee on
Thursday were continuing to
flow freely through the corriJ,
dors of the State Capitol hen l!

Friday, and throughout Butler’s

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on the question of what affect r *i exnediency
his position will have on his bid F ^ *

for re-election and on the Re-
pubhcan party of Virginia.

na , Ido f l t think il will have any
particular impact” on Butler’s
Party standing, said Richard D

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Obenshain, who said he be-
lieved now that President Nix-
on is likely to be impeached
explained the difficulty , e had
ln react ing to Butler’s state
m “ t . c h all > n g, for . impeachment:

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or anyone who’s outside that

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Washington Friday that his im-
peachment stand might have
been “too strong” but said he

been tuu suung
Ifelt he no longer could delay in
taking a position.

“I may have put it (his an-
nouncement) too strong, but

recent years and, at the behest
of Obenshain and other con-
servatives, a recent convert to
the Republican party.

Godwin said he did not neces-
sarily agree with Butler’s state-
ment on impeachment, but con-
ceded the congressman has ac-
cess to more information on the
specifics of the case.

The governor, however, reit-
erated his belief that the Presi-
dent ought to be guaranteed the
ill same presumption of innocence
g»hat would be afforded to any
other citizen of this country.

Other political figures were
even more guarded in com-
menting succinctly on Butler’s
statement.

U. S. Sen. William U Scott,
R-Va., said through a spokes-
man from his Washington office
that it would be improper for
him to analyze or comment on
Butler s statement since he
/ery well could find himself a
juror in a Senate trial of the
President.

> Reaction to Butler’s state-
ment in his home district was
mixed, although many officials

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impeachment vote,” he said. I shared Obenshain and Godwin’s
— — — 'view that it was difficult to
y, critique the statement when
Butler had access to more in-
formation than they did.
However, Butler’s opponent
' in the congressional race,
Roanoke County Sheriff Paul
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Butler Stand Evoking Surprise

Continued From Page B-l

Godwin said he continued to
give the President the “pre-
sumption of innocence,”
which, the governor had said
before should be given to the
President as it would for any
other citizen of the country.

Scott Silent

Freshman U. S. Sen. Wil-
liam L. Scott declined initial
comment on Butler’s remarks.
A spokesman for the Re-
publican senator’s Washington
office said it appears that the
House Judiciary Committee
will adopt a resolution of im-
peachment, and added that
ir Scott would not comment
because he may end up a juror
fc in a Senate trial of the Presi-
V dent.

Not unexpectedly, the
sharpest criticism in the
Roanoke Valley area to
Butler’s stand came from his
opponent in the congressional
race there.

Roanoke City Sheriff Paul
Puckett, when asked about
Butler’s statement said;
“Wasn’t it expected?”

Puckett added “It’s hardly
anything you’d expect Mr. But-
ler to be against at election

time.”

Overall, Butler’s announce-
ment seems to have caused lit-
tle consternation among Re-
publicans in his home district
and slight surprise among

Democrats.

Del. Richard Cranwell
Roanoke County democrat,
said Butler is a “very conscien-
tous person, who is not politi-
cally motivated.”

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ruction or justice
Saturday, July 27, 1974 skunk,” he said.

political Figures Guarded
Regarding Butler Statement

RICHMOND (AP)— While ob-
servers in Virginia were sur-
prised by Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler’s call for the impeach-
ment of President Nixon, almost
everyone to the man said it was
hard to pass judgment on Butler
since he’s privy to more in-
formation on the subject.

The repercussions from But-
ler’s statement before the House
Judicary Committee on Thur-
sday were continuing to flow
freely through the corridors of
the State Capitol here Friday,
and throughout Butler’s 6th
District in Western Virginia.

Much of the speculation cen-
tered not so much on the prin-
ciple of Butler’s statement, but
on the question of what affect his
position will have on his bid for
re-election and on the Re-
publican party of Virginia.

“I don’t think it will have any
particular impact” on Butler’s
party standing, said Richard D.
Obenshain, state Republican
party chairman.

Obenshain, who said he be-
lieved now that President Nixon
is likely to be impeached, ex-
plained the difficulty he had in
reacting to Butler’s statement
calling for impeachment:

“I think it’s just impossible for
» anyone who’s outside that in-
r- credibly emotional atmosphere
| of the Judiciary committee toy

pass judgment on Congressman
Butler’s position and
statement..,” he said.

A similar view was shared by
Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr., a
supporter of the President in
recent years and, at the behest
of Obenshain and other con-
servatives, a recent convert to
the Republican party.

Godwin said he did not neces-
sarily agree with Butler’s state-
ment on impeachment, but con-
ceded the congressman has ac-

cess to more information on the
specifics of the case.

The governor, however, reit-
erated his belief that the Presi-
dent ought to be guaranteed the
same presumption of innocence
that would be afforded to any
other citizen of this country.

Other political figures were
even more guarded in com-
menting succinctly on Butler’s
statement.

U. S. Sen. William L. Scott, R-
Va., said through a spokesman
(Turn to Page 8, Col. A)

((Continued from
from his Washington office that
it would be improper for him to
analyze or comment on Butler’s
statement since he very well
could find himself a juror in a
Senate trial of the President.

Reaction to Butler’s statement
in his home district was mixed,
although many officials shared
Obenshain and Godwin’s view
that it was difficult to critique
the statement when Butler had
access to more information than
they did.

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A Compelling Indictment

The case forged in the House Judi-
ciary Committee for President Nixon’s
trial by the Senate is compelling. Vir-
ginia Representative M. Caldwell But-
ler’s contribution to it was sufficient to
discredit White House screams about
partisan skullduggery and political
lynch-mobbery there. Mr. Butler is a
Republican of solid credentials and, al-
though a Congressional freshman, the
ablest member of his State’s delega-
tion. His judgment that “there are
frightening implications for the future
of our country if we do not impeach the
President of the CJnited States” should
be the House’s judgment.

Any recital of Mr. Nixon’s offenses
against the Constitution, against the
criminal code, against the established
standards of his high office, and against
good judgment and good manners
would be repetitious. The list of close
Nixon associates who have been con-
victed or are charged with serious
crimes is as familiar as it is long. “If
we fail to impeach,” warned Mr. But-
ler, “we will have condoned and left
unpunished a Presidential course of
conduct designed to interfere with and
obstruct the very process he is sworn
to uphold; and we will have condoned
and left unpunished an abuse of power
fatally without justification.”

Mr. Nixon abused power shockingly.
•He trespassed not only upon the priva-
cy and comfort of nersons cataloged as

his enemies but also upon the nation’s
democratic institutions and processes.
Mr. Butler cited instances that most of-
fended and saddened him. Other Com-
mittee members, Republicans among
them, pointed to different occurrences.
The inventory is substantial enough to
afford picking and choosing.

Also, Mr. Nixon obstructed justice.
Whatever the edited transcripts of his
Watergate dialogues that he gave the
Committee may tell or hide, they make
it indisputable that he impeded an in-
vestigation of the break-in and cover-up
by the proper governmental agencies.
Presidential Counsel James D. St. Clair
in his defense arguments to the Com-
mittee was reduced to relying upon a
two-page excerpt from the record of a
90-minute conversation to support Mr.
Nixon’s denial that he ordered hush
money paid to E. Howard Hunt, a Wa-
tergate burglar. Mr. Nixon had rejected
the Committee’s subpoena for that re-
cord and 147 other White House tapes.
The excerpt has the President saying,
“I don’t mean'to be blackmailed by
Hunt— that goes too far.” Its accuracy
has been challenged. But if it is exact,
it invites the question: What short of
blackmail would Mr. Nixon tolerate?
The burglar got his money.

Partisanship did not dictate the Ju-
/diciary Committee’s course. It influ-
enced positions, tb gh, as it was
bound to. And if/some Democrats

found it politically expedient to press
for Mr. Nixon’s impeachment, Mr. But-
ler made the Republican point that
“we cannot indulge ourselves the luxu-
ry of patronizing or excusing the mis-
conduct of our own people. . . .
Watergate is our shame.”

Republicans who would not accept
that challenge defended Mr. Nixon with
apologia and legalisms. They confused,
by design or otherwise, the Commit-
tee’s impeachment role— indeed, im-
peachment itself— with the judicial
process. Ignoring the Senate’s ultimate
burden, they demanded a Committee
finding based on the trial-jury standard
of “beyond a reasonable doubt,” rather
than the “clear and convincing” crite-
rion advanced by impeachment counsel
John Doar. They declined to hold Mr^
Nixon responsible for the outrageous
conduct of his appointed associates and
the White House climate in which they
exercised their arrogance and criminali-
ty. They came close to saying that the
Presidency is so grand that to concede
its occupant is unfit, whatever the
proof, would demean it to the world.

The Judiciary Committee acquainted
itself with Watergate-Nixon evidence to
a degree that the full House of Repre-
sentatives cannot approach. To fulfill
its duty the House must rely heavily on
the Committee’s impeachment advice.
It should measure well the “frightening
implications for the future of our coun-
try” that Mr. Butler of Virginia so per-
suasively held out.

Butler Relieved Decision
About Impeachment Is Out

By JACK BETTS
Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON-Sixth District Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler’s ringing denuncia-
tion of President Richard Nixon Thurs-
day afternoon has brought him a flood
of telephone calls and letters from the
public, personal congratulations from
fellow members of Congress and an in-
, vitation to appear on CBS’s “Face the
Nation’’ program.

The Virginia Republican, who an-
nounced he would support two articles
of impeachment of the President, has
agreed to appear on the nationally tele-
vised show Sunday with another House
Judiciary Committee member, Rep.
Ray Thornton, D-Ark. (The program
will be carried locally on WDBJ-TV,
channel 7, Sunday at 12:30 p.m.)

The decision to vote against the Pres-
ident, he said, came slowly over a peri-
od of months. Skeptical at first, later
admitting that he was undecided but
might vote for impeachment, Butler
startled a national television audience
with an angry statement that he could
not, “and will not stand still” for abuse
of power and obstruction of justice by
the President.

Last weekend, Butler quietly talked
the matter over with his family before
“firming up my decision.”

Still, Butler said, he could have de-
layed saying how he would vote on the
. historic matter.

“Apparently the thing to do was talk
all around it without expressing it, but
as I wrote and toyed with the speech, I
found it was just not my style. This was
the way to do it.”

But mostly, Butler said, he was
“relieved” to have it out.

REP. M. CALDWELL BUTLER

During Friday's Session

Butler’s staff reported receiving
about 90 calls by late afternoon Friday,
many from as far away as Walla Walla,
Wash., and Portland, Ore.

And, while most callers politely ex-
pressed their agreement or disagree-
ment with Butler’s statement, several
were abusive and one repeated caller
peppered a female member of Butler’s
staff with obscene language.

Butler said Friday he had not yet had
a chance to gauge reaction to his state-
ment.

“I haven’t had the first opportunity.
Last night I was worn out and sort of let
down. And I was a bit worried that I
may have put (the statement) too

strong in the nature of the committee’s
debate.”

But Butler said he didn’t think any
evidence would turn up to cause him to
change his mind.

“I’m not disposed to changing my
mind, but if further evidence comes up
that warrants it. I’ll change it and ad-
mit it.”

He said, “I felt that having gone
through the agonizing process of arriv-
ing at a decision, I owed my consti-
tuents the courtesy of saying what I’d
concluded.”

Butler said he had attempted in his
statement to “fit myself into the mosa- -
ic of the general presentation but
touching on points that others had not
mentioned in their statements.”

In his statement, Butler paid tribute
to the committee’s counsel, saying he
was disturbed that his fellow Republi-
cans had found it necessary to oust for-
mer minority counsel Albert Jenner
but complimenting new minority coun-
sel Sam Garrison, a former common-
wealths attorney from Roanoke.

Butler said he was impressed with
Garrison's representation of the Re-
publican viewpoint while keeping his
own counsel on Garrison’s personal
view of the evidence.

Later, Butler said he made the re-
marks to allow Garrison the opportun-
ity to refute charges by columnists that
his sole function was to obstruct the im-
peachment of President Nixon.

Garrison said Friday he resented the
implications that his job was to blindly
obstruct the inquiry.

Garrison said he believed he could
not say now what his own views on im-
peachment are, but indicated he would
feel free to say so “once this matter is
disposed.”

TJ/iftr 'J/S 7

DURING THE DEBATE — Rep. Lawrence J., Hogan, R-Md., left, and Rep.
Caldwell Butler, R-Va., listen to the general debate on the question of im-
peachment during a session of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington.
Rep. Hogan called for the impeachment of President Nixon, and Rep. Butler,
during his address, said: “There are frightening implications for the future of
our country if we do not impeach the President.” (AP Photo)

Debaters Ask:
What Warrants
Impeachment?
What Is Proof?

By ANTHONY LEWIS

WASHINGTON— A person who has lived through much in

Cnrnmft+e ^ Sat watching the House Judiciary

„ dnd murmured again and again, “Amaz-

ing. Absolutely amazing.’*

,2™ af ter all the turns and surprises of Watergate it was
Hn^pJ astonishing to have the fate of the President of the
United States that most powerful being, debated on televi-
sion. Past and present met in a civic drama: the rhetoric of
Edmund Burke and James Madison, the record of Richard

a J h nA? t ebat 4 e f, WaS alternately inspiring and wearying, grand
and petty. After opening on a high constitutional tone the
ommittee moved into the characteristic wrangling of the
legislative process. The real issues began appearing-issues
onstitutional meaning, legal procedure, politics. The
nswers were effectively given not in words but in the com-
mittee s votes— and will be given thus again and again as
the impeachment process goes on.

Watching one felt the uniqueness of America. Nothing
like it could have happened in any other country. 8

The uniqueness and the size of America. For another strik-

th! w 6Ct ° f r 6 Pr ° Ceeding was the wa y ^e 38 members of
the Judiciary Committee reflected the diversity of this huge

raHfn 17 ' Ther J\ W ! re the voices of Texas and New Jersey,
Californm and Indiana-black and white, conservative and
liberal, smooth and rough.

“,y° u k" ow ' we are the people of the United States,” said
Walter Flowers of Alabama. It was one of many genuinely
moving moments. Those in the national audience could see
themselves in that committee: a group of people intensely
American, with ill the imperfections and dignity intact.

the m ° re touching because there was
lm!i ( consciousness of superstar status that
commonly affects Senators. They seemed rather ordinary
men and women but repeatedly they rose above the ordi-
t0 T speak Wlth a C l uiet Passion and conviction.

The chairman, Peter Rodino of New Jersey set the ele-
vated tone with his opening statement calling on the commit-
ee to proceed “in good will, with honor and decency Tnd

“And . . . what if we fail
to impeach? Do we
ingrain forever in the
very fabric of our
Constitution a standard
of conduct in our
highest office that in
the least is deplorable
and at worst is
impeachable?”

with respect for the views of one another.” There was little
rancor, though of course some members were forceful and
even caustic in attacking or defending the President.

In the general debate the tone was mostly one of sadness
in performing such a duty. Several members seemed near
tears in the course of their remarks: Republican Tom Rails-
back of Illinois, for one, as he expressed his divided feelings:

In my opinion Richard Nixon has done many wonderful
things for his country ... I wish the President could do some-
thing to absolve himself ... I just — I just am very, very
concerned.”

Republicans understandably felt themselves in the more
difficult political posture. Some strongly opposed the im-
peachment, yet condemned the moral tone of the Nixon
White House. Wiley Mayne, Republican of Iowa, put it: “I
certainly deplore the sorry example which was set by the
chief executive ... in his personal as well as his official con-
duct.” Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, was alone in call-
ing Mr Nixon “in many ways the best President” in a
century.

Then, as the committee turned to debating the specific
articles of impeachment, partisan attacks and parliamentary
maneuvers began. Those Republicans opposing impeachment
demanded more “specifics” in the words of the articles.
Their effort was really designed not to improve the form of
words but to divide the proponents over what particulars to
include. The committee majority worked to hold its forces
together, especially the half-dozen Republicans favoring im-
peachment but worried by their colleagues* sniping.

And then, yesterday, the committee returned to a more
amiable and businesslike mood as it went through the lan-
guage of the first proposed article and the supporting facts.
The changes of mood may well have bewildered the tele-
vision audience, but they were all part of the way the House
of Representatives and its committees do their work.

Underneath the emotion and the tactiqs, the partisanship
and soul-searching, there developed in the week’s debates a
number of issues and themes. They are likely to continue as
major points of controversy in the debate on the floor of the
House and then, if it comes to that, in the Senate trial.

Walter Flowers

Democrat

Alabama

Charles Wiggins

Republican

California

“The law requires that
we decide the case on
the evidence. . . . Most
of this is just material.
It is not evidence. . . .
Simple theories, of
course, are inadequate.
That’s not evidence. . . .”

The most fundamental question is that of standards: What
grounds and what evidence are required to impeach a Pres-
ident? It is a complicated question, mixing the general with
the particular, the philosophical with the factual.

A first stage in that argument is defining the “high crimes
and misdemeanors” specified in the Constitution as the basis
for impeachment. Mr. Nixon’s lawyer, James St. Clair, had
argued that only a serious indictable crime would do. Most
scholarly opinion took the broader view that a grave viola-
tion of the public trust vested in the President should be the
occasion for impeachment.

The St. Clair view had little explicit support on the Judi-
ciary Committee. Most members who discussed the subject
took the prevailing historical view of the nature of an im-
peachable offense. The committee’s two articles of impeach-
ment were cast in terms of the President violating his oath
of office, first by obstructing justice and second by abuse of
power, and then enumerated specifics — some criminal in
nature, some not.

• ut Mr. St. Clair’s approach still had important echoes in
committee deliberations. They appeared in the discussion
of the “specifics” and of the evidence.

The argument made most forcefully by Republican oppo-
nents of impeachment was that there was not enough evi-
dence linking Mr. Nixon personally to either the alleged
obstruction of justice or the various abuses of power listed.
Thus the man generally reckoned Mr. Nixon’s ablest de-
fender, Charles Wiggins of California, used his opening time
for a detailed and skillful argument that “there were mis-
deeds,” such as attempts to misuse the I.R.S., but ones trace-
able only to John Dean or H. R Haldeman or some other

Those who favored impeachment, of course, disputed tne
claim of insufficient evidence. William Cohen, Republican of
Maine, said all criminal lawyers knew that circumstantial
evidence was as good as any other: If a man woke up and
saw snow covering the ground, he knew it had snowed al-
though he had not actually seen the snow fall. John Seiberling,
Ohio Democrat, put it: “I know of corporate executives who
have pled guilty and in some cases have gone to jail when
there was only a small fraction of the evidence of their com-
plicity that is before us in this case.”

Proponents of impeachment mentioned such particulars
as Mr. Nixon’s promise to Harry Petersen of the Justice De-
partment that he would keep grand jury secrets to himself—
followed immediately by his disclosing them to a prime sus-
pect, H. R. Haldeman, and then by his giving Mr. Haldeman
tapes to hear. Again, there was much mention of Mr. Nixon’s
listening with apparent approval to tales of how the Internal
Revenue Service was being pressured to get the President’s
“enemies.”

But a further point, never exactly articulated, was that the
standard of evidence required might well differ if one looked
at this proceeding as measuring abuses of public trust. For
then it would be enough if the President knew of crimes or
abuses and failed to see to their legal correction. It was
enough for Republican M. Caldwell Butler of Virginia, for
example, to conclude that Mr. Nixon had “condoned and en-
couraged” misuse of the I.R.S.

As the impeachment process continues, it seems likely
that Mr. Nixon’s defenders will continue to talk in the nar-
rowest posssible terms of criminal cases, criminal standards
of proof, criminal responsibility. The other side will main-

Charles Sandman
Republican
New Jersey

“Now . . . maybe I
overlooked something.
Maybe there is a tie-in
with the President. . . .
Give me that
information. Give it
to 202 million
Americans. Because
up to this moment,
you haven’t.”

Barbara Jordan

Democrat

Texas

“My faith in the
Constitution is whole,
it is complete, it is
total, and I am not
going to sit here and be
an idle spectator to
the diminution, the
subversion, the
destruction of the
Constitution.”

to the President himself

^^here were lots of crimes committed by lots of people,”
said another vigorous Nixon defender, Charles Sandman of
New Jersey. “But were they placed at the door of the Presi-
dent? I do not think so.”

Similarly, some Republicans complained of the volume ofT
"circumstantial” evidence, not direct testimony. David Den-
nis of Indiana dismissed it as mostly “hearsay” that “will
not do” at a Senate trial.

tain that those standards are amply met— but will also, to a
degree, argue James Madison’s view that a President is re-
sponsible for wrongdoing all around him, at least on the
massive scale found by the committee in this case.

A second issue of importance is political in the large
sense — whether removing Mr. Nixon, whatever his wrongs,
will be good for the country.

“Any prosecution [in the Senate] is going to divide this
country,” Mr. Dennis said. Mr. Mayne argued that past
Presidents had done bad things, too, and had not been im-
peached.

To that Lawrence Hogan of Maryland, a Republican favor-
ing impeachment, replied that other Presidents may have
erred, “but I was not in a position where I had to take a
stand, where I approve or disapprove of blatant wrong-
doing.” Mr. Butler said a failure to impeach would have
“frightening implications for the future” because it would
have set so low a standard of conduct for Presidents. A third
Republican for impeachment, Harold Froelich of Wisconsin,
put it: “Past misconduct cannot logically justify more of the
same.”

It may have seemed somewhat unfair to the Northern
liberal Democrats on the committee that so much attention
focused on their Republican and Southern Democratic col-
leagues. But the latter did have the harder struggle of politics
and conscience, and their views could have great influence
now in the full House and Senate.

By James Latimer
Can a Republican con-
gressman who votes for im-
peachment expect to win
reelection this year in the con-
gressional district that was
Virginia’s most pro-Nixon dis-
trict in 1972?,

This was one variation of a
practical political question pos-
ed after Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler of the 6th District on
Thursday took his stand firmly
and eloquently, if reluctantly, in
favor of the impeachment of
Richard Nixon.

The 5 tentative answer
suggested yesterday by sources
inside and outside the Roanoke-
Lynchburg-lower Shenandoah
Valley district was clearly af-
firmative. <

How does that happen in a dis-
trict where Nixon polled nearly
73 percent of the presidential
vote while Butler was polling 55
per cent of the votes cast for
Congress?

No Pro-Nixon Foe
Part of the explanation may
be, as an observer in the
Roanoke areanoted, that Butler
is NOT faced, with a pro-Nixon
opponent on the Nov. 5 ballot. He
also has prepared his con-
stituents by a policy of great
candor in keeping them inform-
ed of the impeachment issues
enmeshing him as a member of
the House Judiciary Commit-
tee.

Butler shares the 6th District
ballot with three opponents:
Democrat Paul Puckett of
Roanoke, who was out strongly
for impeachment long before
Butler; Warren D. Saunders of

n __ _ AP Wirephoto

Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
Was Outpolled by Nixon

Bedford, whose American par-
ty associates long have been
critical of the Nixon regime,
and Timothy A. McGay of
Goshen, an independent who has
said his prime interest is in con-
servation but has NOT indicated
that that includes the conserva-
tion of Nixon as President.

Butler’s nationally televised
exposition of why he felt com-
pelled to favor impeachment
stirred up some irate Nixonites
to vow they’d never vote for
Butler again. They are believed
to be very few — at least, by
Nov. 5, it seems probable very
few will feel moved to vote for a
Butler opponent. They may be
offset by Democrats and in-
dependents impressed by the
Butler demonstration of candor
and courage.

Among those who didn’t think
Butler had hurt his reelection

chances, Gov. Mills E. Godwin
Jr., though sticking to the
presumption that President
Nixon is innocent until proved
guilty, said he would have “No
adverse comment” on the
Butler stand.

“Naturally he’s concerned,
as we all are, about whether the
President will have to be im-
peached,’’ Godwin told a UPI
reporter, “And naturally you
can’t please everybody.”

; The governor also told
another reporter he doubted
that the impeachment
proceedings would prove to be a
decisive factor in any of the
seven Virginia districts where
Republican incumbents face
Democratic challengers in the
1974 congressional elections.

Other 'observers wondered,
however, if developments
between now and Nov. 5 might
not change this appraisal.

If the House impeaches, and the
Senate tries the President, the
trial probably would be going on
throughout the autumn cam-
paigning. Whichever way they
vote on impeachment, seven
Republicans running for reelec-
tion thus might be subjected to
unpredictable cpnsequences
from presently unforeseeable
evidence. It could be, as one of
the seven has said, a no-win
situation for some of the
Virginia GOP incumbents —
meaning that an imponderable
number of voters may be
alienated by a vote either for or
against impeachment.

Though Butler’s 6th District
gave Nixon his largest majority

Continued on Page 4. Col 1

{ ( Butler Stand
May Not Hurt

v Continued From Firs t Page

in . P^ r centage terms of any of
Virginia's 10 congressional dis-
tricts in 1972, other districts
^may be more volatile in their
reactions to the Nixon-
^impeachment- '» Watergate
^yvemotional complex. Other
^Virginia! congressmen,
^therefore, may encounter more
political difficulties because of
their impeachment stances
than the first Virginia incum-
; bent to announce his impeach-
ment intentions.

It now appears that more
White House tapes may
« somehow be made public before
election day — in the Senate
trial or via coui;t proceedings.
What if these tapes served con-
t clusively either to prove Presi-
dent Nixon guilty or innocent?

Poster

Feeling at Home
In the House

A Commentary
By Nicholas von Hoffman

> >

The television lights make the place look like a Las
Vegas gaming room where the sun never rises and the
people never leave. That is how many of them in the
Judiciary Committee room must feel. A staff person
remarks in sympathy that Doar has lost weight and Don
Edwards of California pulls down the bags under his
eyes to indicate fatigue.

But Albert Jenher, who is 67 years old, has on a
bright pair of argyle socks while he gives off an ener-
getic equanimity. During a recess he puts his committee
papers in what is suspected of being a genuine Mark
, Cross briefcase while he explains that his years as a
trial attorney have taught him not to leave such stuff
around, and then, in answer to a^question, says yes, it’s
true, he wouldn’t be surprised if he had three hundred
bow. ties. ‘Tve kept every one since high school. I have
fat ones and thin ones. You can’t wear the same one
often.”

Jenner is the Republican counsel who was moved

over to the Democratic side of the committee’s legal
staff for failing to defend the President. But that’s a
task no one has been able to accomplish. There are no
defense witnesses, no defense offerings of evidence.
Other than one snippet of tape offered by Mr. St. Clair,
they do not exist. No more than there is a defense
theory of the case, a defense alternative explanation.

Everybody, or nearly everybody, loves Jenner. It is
whispered that he is the most brilliant trial lawyer in
the country, a giant in the profession and that when
the drama begins in the Senate he will present the
House of Representatives’ case: The radiclib affection
for Jenner is the most extreme case of our generally
going cow-eyed over the Republicans who waht to im-
peach the President. Some of us have discovered in
Hogan of Maryland, a man for whom we didn’t have a
decent word two weeks ago, an incisive mind and bed-
rock honesty. And when M. Caldwell Butler of Virginia,
who looks even more like the kindly old judge in the

flesh than he does on TV, offers Mary McGrory his
Coke, we come near to a choke.

There is much talk about the system really working,
really though, and what a marvelous thing the House
of Representatives is, and, oh, snobs that we are, how
the caliber of the minds and morals to be found therein
are really much higher than is customarily thought.
At the coffee break private references are made to the
solemnity of the occasion that are almost as lead-footed
as what some of the congressmen have said before the
cameras.

We must be forgiven if . skeptics gulp and get teary.
The need to believe in the elected representatives of
the people is great just now when we are decapitating
a President. Nevertheless, the imagination strains at
dressing them up in Colonial costumes, at turning the
two-tiered room into a legislative Williamsburg. Putting

See COMMENTARY, B16, Col 3

CO M ME NT A R Y —

Feeling at Home

COMMENTARY , From B1

a powdered white wig on Thornton of Arkansas, who
is considered to have either a bad barber or a terribly
cheap hair piece, might help, but we wouldn’t want
to lose Congressman Wiggins’ marcel and Barbara
Jordan wouldn’t work at all. She was not one of We the
People back then. Henry Smith of New York would look
splendid if frozen in oil and framed in gold, but the
costumers fantasy will do less for New Jersey’s Joe
Maraziti, this summer’s Sen. Montoya, the man the
Nixonites yield to whenever they’ve run out of argu-
ments but not out of time.

On this day, the news of John Connally’s indictment
has just come out. The sum involved is only $10,000.
Someone in the corridor disbelieves that the old bag
of Texas drawl could have done it. “Why, the door-
knobs m his place cost more than that.” So many indict-
ments and jailings, and in the room Kissinger’s name
comes up again. Although there is less zeal to nail
him than the Haldemans and the Ehrlichmans, the
thought strikes that he may no longer be able to extri-
cate himself, but if he does go down with his colleagues
it will be over illicit wire tapping, hot unlawful
bombing.

At this rate every lamp post on Pennsylvania Avenue
will be decorated with one of the President’s men. Not
that the spirit in the room is especially vengeful. It is ,
impossible to picture a man like Donohue of Massa-
chusetts with that look of a benign, embalmed bulldog
taking part in a lynching, yet a process of some sort
is under way and, even though the rules of parliament-
ary procedures are followed with punctillio, no one
can cbntrol who gets threshed and thrashed.

The debate continues, the yieldings and the moving
and the objectings, the pretty young women with the
serious faces (the House comelies) fetch papers and
bring around glossies of the committee to be auto-
graphed like the team baseball. Some of the members
are as good as they look, others are batting way over
their heads reading words written by others for them,
but the whole story is getting out to the whole people,
all he did and how he did ifr is getting through and it
will end him.

Panel Urges mipeuuimenT
For Obstruction of Justice

27 - 7 7 Vote

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House

and subversive of constitutional govern-
ment, to the great prejudice of the cause
of law and justice and to the manifest inju-
ry to the people of the United States.

“Wherefore, Richard M. Nixon, by
such conduct, warrants impeachment and
trial, and removal from office.”

Following the action, the committee
recessed until 10:30 a.m. EDT Monday.

Action was still to come on yet anoth-
er — and perhaps more — impeachment
articles. A timetable established by con-
gressional leaders calls for the full House
to decide the issue by the end of August.

A majority of the House would be re-
quired to place Nixon on trial in the Sen-
ate. where a two-thirds vote is necessary
to convict and remove him from office.

The committee had debated for four
days, sometimes courtly, sometimes con-
tentious. as Americans watched on televi- I
sion or listened on radio. Earlier, the }
38-member panel of lawyers and their
staff of more than 100 had spent six
months privately amassing volume after
volume of evidence.

Finally, the first of the climactic
Votes on impeachment came at twilight on
a sultry summer Saturday.

The 61-year-old President, reelected
20 months ago with the largest popular
vote ever, has proclaimed his innocence
throughout the scandal, born two years j
ago when agents of his campaign burglar- j
ized and bugged the national headquarters
of the Democratic Party.

Nixon, who was described by a spokes-
man Saturday as following the commit-
tee's proceedings “very closely,” has
vowed to fight the case in the House and, if
necessary, in the Senate.

Judiciary Committee recommended Sat-
urday night that Richard M. Nixon be
impeached for violating his trust as 37th
President of the United States.

The President was across the conti-
nent. at his home on a California bluff ov-
erlooking the Pacific, when the committee
acted.

The vote was 27 to 11 on a nine-part ar-
ticle of impeachment accusing the Repub-
lican chief executive of having
“prevented, obstructed, and impeded the
administration of justice” in the Water-
gate coverup.

sues “with an open mind.

Hours earlier. Press Secretary Ronald
L. Ziegler said Nxion had no plan to speak
out “at this point” but remained confident
the House would reject the impeachment
recommendation after examining the is-

CltOC “tirifKl «-ir* J ”

All 21 Democrats were joined by 6
Republicans in affirming the article. Elev-
en Republicans opposed it.

The formal roll call in the hushed
committee room came just moments after
the 38 members had, by a similarly wide
margin, adopted an amendment refining
the charges against Nixon.

Rep. Charles E. Wiggins, RCalif., es-
sentially summed up the position of Nixon
deienders when he declared in one ex-
change: “There are plent of misdeeds by
mthers but unless we attribute them to the
President they are not impeachable offen-
ses.”

Thus, for only the second time in the
Republic's 198 years, a committee of Con-
gress recommended removal of the na-
tion's highest officer.

Impeachment advocates spent their
day mostly reciting details of evidence
rather than with the broader denuncia-

See Page A-4, Col. 1

The article concluded:

Text of Impeachment Articles —

... Richard M. Nixon has acted in a
manner contrary to his trust as President

Page A-2

Mrs. June Butler Watches Husband on TV. Story on Page B-1

c* o 0 Ke

Butler Votes for Article 1 71

BY JACK BETZ
Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler. R-Virginia, an
ardent conservative and
staunch Republican, Saturday
cast two votes to impeach the
President of the United States.

Butler, Virginia s only mem-
ber of the House Judiciary
Committee, cast voice votes
shortly after 7 p.m. finding the
President guilty of obstruction
of justice. Butler voted for a
substitute amendment offered
by Rep. Paul Sarbannes, D-

Maryland to an original article
of impeachment and then cast
his final vote in favor of the
obstruction of justice charge.

Butler, like most members
of the committee cast his vote
in a lowered voice that was
barely perceptible in the
crowded but almost deathly
quiet hearing room in the mas-
sive Rayburn Office Building.

Later, asked how he felt as
he cast a vote against the presi-
dent and the leader of his par-
ty. Butler replied gently, “How
would you feei.”

Obviously overcome with
emotion by his historic yote, in
which he was joined by five
other committee Republicans,
Butler said, “Just say that I
.don't want to talk about it for a
little while.”

The committee spent nearly
four hours Saturday afternoon
debating amendments to the
proposed article.

Butler joined several of his
colleagues in consistently re-
jecting attempts to strike sev-
en of the nine counts in the
obstruction of justice article.

At one point he recited the
evidence in support of one
charge of condoning and coun-
seling witnesses to give false
or misleading statements to
lawfully authorized investiga-
tive officers of the United
States.

Today Butler appears with
Rep. Ray Thornton, D-Ark., on
the CBS network program,
“Face the Nation.’ ’ It can be
seen in the Roanoke area on
Channel 7 at 12:30 p.m.

27 To 11 Vole President Following

By Committee

By DONALD M. ROTHBERG

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary
Committee recommended Saturday night that Rich-
ard M. Nixon be impeached as 37th President of the
United States for having “prevented, obstrucred, and
impeded administration of justice” in the Watergate
coverup.

Their faces grim, the com-
mittee of lawyers voted 27 to 11
to approve a nine-part article
accusing the Republican chief
executive of violating his “con-
stitutional duty to take care
that the laws be faithfully ex-
ecuted...”

Roll Call Vote

The formal roll call in the
hushed committee room came
just moments after the 38
members had, by a similarly
wide margin, adopted an
amendment refining the
charges against Nixon.

All 21 Democrats were
joined by 6 Republicans in af-
firming the article. Eleven Re-
publicans opposed it.

Thus, for only the second
time in the Republic’s 198
years, a committee of Congress
recommended removal of the
nation’s highest officer.

Impeachment Debate

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — Winding up a 16-day stay at
the Western White House, President Nixon was described Satur-
day as following the House Judiciary Committee impeachment
proceedings “very closely” but determined to devote his time to
presidential duties.

In describing Nixon’s mood, Press Secretary Ronald L.
Ziegler said the President had no plans to speak out on the
impeachment debate “at this point.”

Ziegler said Nixon is feeling fine, and the press secretary
reasserted his belief that if the Judiciary Committee sends a bill
of impeachment to the House of Representatives, the House will
not vote to impeach after examining the matter “with an open
mind.”

He continued to maintain “there is no evidence to support
the allegations.”

Ziegler said the President was returning to Washington this
afternoon and had no specific schedule yet for the week ahead in
Washington. The press secretary said he would not rule out the
possibility that Nixon might go to the Camp David, Md., mountain
retreat where he earlier reviewed Watergate-related tape record-
ings of presidential conversations that became evidence in the
impeachment proceedings and Watergate cover-up trials.

jury to the people of the Un-
ited States.

“Wherefore, Richard M.
Nixon, by such conduct, war-
rants impeachment and trial,
and removal from office.”

Following the action, the
committee recessed until 10:30
a.m. EDT Monday.

Action was still to come on

See IMPEACHMENT, A-8

Outcome Announced

The outcome was an-
nounced by Chairman Peter
W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., at pre-
cisely 7:05 p.m. EDT.

His words were swift and
formal: “Pursuant to the reso-
lution, Article One of that reso-
lution is adopted and reported
to the House.”

Caldwell Vote

Republicans who approved
the impeachment recommen-
dation were Reps. Thomas F.
Railsback of Illinois, Hamilton
Fish Jr. of New York, Law-
rence J. Hogan of Maryland, M.
Caldwell Butler of Virginia,
William S. Cohen of Maine and
Harold V. Froehlich of Wiscon-
sin. ;

The article concluded:

“ . Richard M. Nixon has
acted i” a manner-contrary to
his trust as President and sub-
versive of constitutional gov-
ernment, to the great preju-
dice of the cause of law and
justice and to the manifest in-

00^ 7/pf/7l-

Impeachment Of Nixon Recommended

Continued From A-l

yet another — and perhaps
more — impeachment articles.
A timetable established by con-
gressional leaders calls for the
full House to decide the issue
by the end of August.

A majority of the House
would be required to place

Nixon on trial in the Senate,
where a two-thirds vote is nec-
essary to convict and remove
him from office.

Four-Day Debate

The committee had debated
for four days, sometimes court-
ly, sometimes contentious, as

Americans watched on tele-
vision or listened on radio.
Earlier, the 38-member panel
of lawyers and their staff of
more than 100 had spent six
months privately amassing vol-
ume after volume of evidence.

Finally, the first of the
climactic votes on impeach-

ment came at twilight on a
sultry summer Saturday.

The 61-ye'ar-old President,
reelected 20 months ago with
the largest popular vote ever,
has proclaimed his innocence
throughout the scandal, born
two years ago when agents of
his campaign burglarized and
bugged the national head-
quarters of the Democratic
Party.

View of House

Butler

Judiciary Committee During the impeachment Debate Saturday

Votes for Article 1 v y

By JACK BETTS
Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler. R-Virginia, an
ardent conservative and
staunch Republican. Saturday
cast two votes to impeach the
President of the United States.

Butler, Virginia's only mem-
ber of the House Judiciary
Committee, cast voice votes
shortly after 7 p.m. finding the
President guilty of obstruction
of justice. Butler voted for a
substitute amendment offered
by Rep. Paul Sarbannes, D-

Maryland to an original article
of impeachment and then cast
his final vote in favor of the
obstruction of justice charge.

Butler, like most members
of the committee cast his vote
in a lowered voice that was
barely perceptible in the
crowded but almost deathly
quiet Rearing room in the mas-
sive Rayburn Office Building.

Later, asked how he felt as
he cast a vote against the
President and the leader of his
party, Butler replied gently,
•‘How would you feet"

A it

Obviously overcome with
emotion by his historic vote, in
which he was joined by five
other committee Republicans,
Butler said. “Just say that I
don't want to talk about it for a
little while."

The committee spent nearly
four hours Saturday, afternoon
debating amendments to the
proposed article.

Butler joined several of his
colleagues in consistently re-
jecting attempts to strike sev-
en of the nine counts in the
obstruction of justice article.

Today Butler appears with
Rep. Ray Thornton, D-Ark., on
the CBS network program,
"Face the Nation." It can fee
seen in the Roanoke area os
Channel 7 at 12:30 p/m.

Mrs, Butler Proud of

Husband —Page A-4

The Momentum to Impeachment

News

Analysis

By R. W. APPLE JR.

Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, July 27-Only
a month ago, the storms of
destiny seemed at last to be
subsiding for President Nixon.
Among the knowledgeable in
Washington, the conviction was
growing that the
impeachment cam-
paign against him
had spent its mo-
mentum; at the
White House, it
was hoped that the vote in the
House Judiciary Committee
would be close, that the Presi-
dent might even eke out a one-
vote victory.

It is now clear that the
knowledgeable were wrong,
that they mistook a break in
the clouds for lasting sunshine.
The members of the Judiciary
Committee have made their de-
cisions, decisions that leave Mr.
Nixon in the minority by al-
most 3-to-l — a disaster for the
President, by any reckoning.

Why was the White House
unable to hold the line? And
what does that failure portend?

The basic White House tactic,
and one that seemed last month
to be working in the commit-
tee, was to paint the issue in
purely partisan terms by mak-
ing the President’s cause the
Republican cause and hoping
that some of the Southern Dem-
ocrats would go along.

A Fleeting Success

Here as elsewhere, the Presi-
dent’s agents appear to have
underestimated the committee’s
chairman, Representative Peter
W. Rodino Jr., Democrat of
New Jersey. Rather than buck-
ling when polarization set in,
he persevered in patience and
flexibility, yielding on several
points to James D. St. Clair,
Mr. Nixon’s counsel.

Having won what turned out
to be a fleeting success, the
White House pressed on. It
pressed too far, in fact, offend-
ing the Congressional sense of
institution.

Thes dozen swing votes were
offended when Ronald L. Zieg-
ler, the Presidential press sec-
retary, described the commit-
etee’s proceedings as a “kanga-
roo courte,” and by White at-
tacks on the majority counsel,
John M. Doar, who had won
the respect if not the firm sup-
poret of most of them.

They were offended when
Mr. St. Clair, in his final sum-
mation, put before the com-
mittee what he described as
an exculpatory portion of a
tape recording — a recording
that the committee had been
seeking in its entirety for sev-
eral month*

And some of tne unaeciaed]
Republicans were offended I

Peripheral Events

when Representative Charles E.i As is so often the case in
Wiggins, Republican of Cali- Congress the votes in the com-
fornia, who has been serving mittee were an amalgam of per-

as an unofficial Administration
straw boss on the committee,
predicted that no Republican
member would support im-
peachment.

Spread Too Thin

In part, some White House
officials believe, errors were
committed because Mr. St.
Clair was spread too thin after
his associate, J. Fred Buzhardt
Jr., had a heart attack. But the
errors were also in keeping
with a pattern of counter-
productive Administration at-
tacks seen earlier in the strug-
gle over the Supreme Court
nomination of G. Harrold Cars-
well.

The weight of the evidence
worked against Mr. Nixon in a
number of ways in the decisive
weeks.

sonality, tactics and issues. On
this occasion, there was an-
other element that may have
counted — peripheral events.

By the account of several of
the formerly uncommitted
members, the conviction of
John D. Ehrlichmann, Mr.
Nixon’s onetime chief domestic
adviser, implied to them that
Mr. Nixon must have been in-
volved. Representative Robert
McClory, Republican of Illinois,
cried when he heard the news.

Similarly the pattern of ques-
tioning by the Justices of the
Supreme Court and then, at the
1 last minute, the decision of the
'Court in the Presidential tapes
case, helped in a vague way
1 to cause Mr. Nixon’s defense to
.fall into disrepute.

The almost universal ex-

t , . , me aimusL umvci&ai ca-

; There were a few damaging 1 nfirtatinn among House mem .

I s

final disclosures! Represcir
tive Tom Railsback, Republican
of Illinois, for example, was
propelled toward a proimpeach-
ment vote, by evidence that
Mr. Nixon had condoned mis-
use of the Internal Revenue
Service.

But the collation and publi-
cation of evidence that the
committee had already known
about was equally crucial.

Not only did the evidence
somehow seem more weighty
to many of the undecided mem-
bers when it was organized in-
to a coherent whole; its ap-
pearance in newspapers and on
television also helped, to rec-
reate a sense of momentum to-
ward impeachment that com-
municated itself to the mem-
bers. As one of them said, it is
harder to cast a politically
dangerous vote “when you
don’t feel that you’re part of
the tide of history.”

That is not to say that the
wavering members made their
judgments solely on a political
basis. Certainly not Representa-
tive James R. Mann, Democrat
of South Carolina, in whose
district Mr. Nixon is nearly as
popular today as when he won
80 per cent of the vote there
two years ago. And certainly
not Representative M. Caldwell
Butler, Republican of Virginia,
who has impressed his peers
las a man impervious to pres-
sures.

bers familiar with the situation
is that the full House of Repre-
sentatives will approve a bill
of impeachment late next
month, barring some major na-
tional or international upheaval.
Mr. Wiggins, for example, now
talks regularly about “when
the Senate trial begins,” rather
than “if.”

Events of the last week in
the committee have contributed
to that outlook.

If the three Southern Demo-
crats on the committee had
come down against impeach-
ment, relatively few Southern
ers would have been expected
to support it in the House. As
things turned out, however,
VIr. Nixon may retain as few

as two dozen Southern Demo-
cratic supporters.

Many observers believe that
the actions of Representative
Ray Thornton, Democrat of
Arkansas, a committee mem-
ber, indicate that Representa-
tive Wilbur D. Mills, another
Arkansas Democrat, wil back
impeachment.

Mr. Mills, Mr. Thornton’s
mentor, has enough weight in
the House to influence a num-,
ber of votes.

Vote Estimate Revised

By the same token, the de-
cisions of Representatives Mc-
Clory and Lawrence J. Hogan,
Republican of Maryland, to
support at least one article of
impeachment are likely to pro-
duce Republican votes on the
flooor. Mr. McClory’s seniority
and record of party regularity
will impress some colleagues
and Mr. Hogan’s conservatism
'vthers.

1 „

Whereas Republican liDeicuo
were saying two weeks ago
that there would be no more
I than 25 proimpeachment votes
I from their party, mostly drawn ,
from the ranks of the liberal ,
Wednesday group, they now ■
believe that as many as 45 or
50 are possible.

Thus, with a 248-to-147
Democratic margin in the
House, a majority of 80 votes
for impeachment*--even with-
out any sort of “tidal wave”
effect — is expected.

That would never have been
possible if the committee had
divided narrowly along partisan
or regional lines. Because al-
most 40 per per cent of the
committee members from the
President’s party, and all but
one one of the Southern Mem-
bers, decided to back impeach-
ment, such action has gained
a kind of legitimacy that will
count for much on the floor.

Vice President Ford con-
ceded that point yesterday in
Chicago. The defections by com-
mittee Republicans, he said,
“narrow the odds” against the
President’s impeachment.

And in the Senate? That, of
course, is Mr. Nixon’s last line
of defense — a line in which he
has reposed a good deal of
confidence, partly because it
will take a two-thirds vote to
convict him, partly because he
has so many conservative
Democratic allies there.

But there are elements that
could undercut his position.
An overwhelming house vote of .
course. Or damning evidence
from the 64 White House con- (
versations now available to the
courts, which may become
public before the trial. Or, as
Senator Mike Mansfield, Dem-
ocrat of Montana, suggested,
Presidential defiance of Senate
subpoenas.

“I would think,” said the
laconic majority leader, “that
some of my conservative col-
leagues might rebel if the
President dealt with them the
same way he has dealt with
the committee.”

It could be as close as it
was for Andrew Johnson.

mm ■ Mi 'll

Mrs. June Butler Watches Husband on TV

Times Staff Photo

After Congressman's Vote,
She Thinks of 'Enemies'

By DONNA SHOEMAKER
Times Staff Writer

M. Caldwell Butlers main sounding
board sat in her Roanoke living room* her
eyes fixed on her husband and the House
Judiciary Committee’s impeachment de-
bate Saturday afternoon on the T.V., and
commented that she and Butler might be
on President Nixon’s “enemies list.”

June Butler smiled and said that Cald-
well would add to that, “at this point, it’s
safer than the friends list.”

In these past few days, when the firm
support of Butler has shifted to a position
favoring the impeachment of the Presi-
dent. Mrs. Butler has been watching the
proceedings on their color television, and
keeping in close touch by telephone with
him and their 17-year-old son, Jimmy.

Jimmy has been in Washington this
week with his Dad, sitting on the
15-minute debate during which the 6th Dis-
trict Republican said he would support
two articles of impeachment. Jimmy has
alternated the one seat allotted per com-
mittee member in the hearing room with
Butler’s staff.

For her part, Mrs. Butler said, she
was glad to be at home watching it all,

, working on a crewel embroidery bell han-
ger and a jig-saw puzzle.

His speech Thursday came as a sur-
prise to her. since when she had talked to
him earlier that morning, he was still un-
certain as to what to say. But watching it
with her family, she was “very proud of
his performance.”

What led to her husband’s changing
she theorized, “was not so much

an avalanche as one continuous snowfall of
evidence.”

As she watched her husband Saturday
afternoon go down a list of what the Presi-
dent did and did not know about the break-
in, she told an interviewer, “he’s pinpoint-
ing what the President knew and didn’t
rise up in righteous indignation about—
and that’s what got to him.”

“in the beginning, his feelings went
first one way and then another, almost like
a clock.” but what brought around But-
ler’s thinking, his wife continued, was the
accumulation of evidence.

She. too, has become absorbed with
the evidence, and though she has not read
all the volumes, she has read with particu-
lar care the volume that detailed the dif-
ferences in the President’s version and the
Judiciary Committee’s versions of the'
President’s tapes.

“I read that book in its entirety— I was
so shocked. I was “I taking notes and
marking pages.”

Her reading of books this week
brought her into the national news spot-
light when she was quoted as saying she*
read to Caldwell in bed from Bob Wood-
ward and Carl Bernstein’s book on Water-
gate. “All the President’s Men.”

She explained Saturday, “I approve of
bedtime reading, and that’s just as good as
Little Red Riding Hood.” She had read to
him from “Zelda” the week before, and a
book on Kissinger before that. Her own
views on impeaching Nixon paralleled
those of her husband, she said. “I hate to
do it— he has been a very warm, kind per-
son” in all their personal meetings. And

though it nas been “hard to accept the j
facts that came out in the tapes,” she has
done it.

Watching each of the committee
members during their 15-minute debates tf
this week, she was impressed with the
“statesmen making their statements.”

But as the debate grew more intri- *
cate, with the refinement of the impeach-
ment articles, she said she felt the
statesmen “were returning to their natu-
ral state of being politicians-lawyers,”
making following the debate more diffi-
cult.

Her own interest in Watergate sprang
right from the beginning. Shortly after the
Democratic National Headquarters were
broken into more than two years ago, she
and her husband were attending a seminar
for the new Republican candidates. Quite
mysteriously, 7 of the speakers that week
were cancelled, Mrs. Nixon cancelled a
tea. and the President cancelled his recep-
tion. Mrs. Butler said.

It left her puzzled since no explana-
tions were offered. At the end of that
week. Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, one of the
cancelled speakers, resigned.

And come November, if he is not re-
elected. then at least it has been “a brief
but bright two years,”— and especially the
past few weeks— when she has seen her
husband make a decision that has brought
him into national prominence in the im-
peachment proceedings.

The reaction of friends to Butler’s
stance has generally been favorable, and
those who have disagreed have done so
politely— except for a few crank
added.

A— 4

THE ROANOKE TIMES, Sunday, July 28, 1974

Roll Call Vote

-s^cSntinued From A-l

Utah, Mezvinsky, Iowa;
Rodino, N.J.

Republicans for: 6.
Railsback, 111.; Fish, N.Y.;
Hogan, Md.; Butler, Va.;
Cohen, Maine.; Froehlich,
Wis.;

Republicans against: 11.
Hutchinson, Mich.; McClory,

111.; Smith, N.Y.; Sandman,
N.J.; Wiggins, Calif.

Dennis, Ind.; Mayne, Iowa;
Lott, Miss.; Moorhead, Calif.;
Maraziti, N.J.; Latta, Ohio.

REP. BUTLER
XO.APPEAR
ON CBS SHOW

S i y t h Hi strict Rap^-M..
Ca ldwell Butler, who rece ntly^
~ gave t en tative supp orU^o the__
^nrpeachm ent of President NjXi-
on. is scheduled to appe ar on.
^the television program Face
‘ theJ^tioiL today at 12:30 p.m.

Butler will appear for the
question and answer session
with Rep. Ray Thornton of Ar-
kansas, also serving on the
House Judiciary Committee.

The program can be seen
locally on Channel 7.

o»*

'PERSUADABLES' — GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee who may vote for impeachment are,

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from the left, Reps. Butler, Cohen, Fish, Railsback, McClory, Smith, Sandman, Dennis, Mayne and Froehlich.

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38 on Impeachment Panel

;? BY JACK NELSON
j and PAUL HOUSTON

Times Staff Writers

v- WASHINGTON — Long
f before they had heard the
: ‘evidence in the impeach-
gsment inquiry, Walter
^Flowers and M. Caldwell
Butler emphasized how
^crucial they considered
ft their votes on whether to
I recommend that President
“ ’•Nixon be impeached.

... Flowers, an Alabama
| Democrat whose district
: voted overwhelmingly in
1972 to reelect Mr. Nixon,
f . said, "This is the only vote
I'U ever be remembered
J for and it would not be fair
|fet° my family or to myself
| ..If I did not cast my vote on
>he basis of the evidence."

Butler, a Virginia Re-
publican whose district
also voted overwhelming

ly to relect Mr. Mxon
bristled when a reporter at
a meeting he addressed
suggested that pol

considerations might m-

-?woSid Uke to n g S et my

«-rs£-."MS

dSed -But it I can't,
ff «st have to vote my
copscience. The job is not
worth voting against my
conscience."

As members of the
House Judiciary Commit-
tee, Flowers and Butler,
together with their 36 col-
leagues, are approaching
the moment of truth when
.- they must vote "aye" or

* '"nay" on articles of im-
peachment against the

* President of the United
: States.

Debate on proposed arti-
cles opens today at 4:30
p.m. PDT with live televi-
sion coverage, the first
. time the commit tee has
opened its hearings to the
j public since it began re-
ceiving evidence on May 9.

O L- 1 C 1

Throughout the hear-
ings, Flowers and Butler
have said their con-
sciences will be their
But not all of the
'nittee members feel
'that political considera-
tions should be brushed
aside.

Rep. Charles E. Wiggins
(R-Calif.), who has been
' the committee's most out-
spoken challenger of the
case against the President,

» contends that the ultimate
decision on whether to
> recommend impeachment
,«will be a political one.

Wiggins says the com-
' mittee's hearings neces-
sarily began on a political
footing, with the majority
composed largely of mem-
bers who oppose the Pres-
ident and the minority
made up mostly of mem-
bers who support him.

Even if a member con
eluded that Mr. Nixon had
committed an impeach-
able offense, Wiggins said,
he still would have to
make the political decision
of whether the President
should be ousted from of-
because of the offense.

In a presentation which
he described as emphasiz- '
ing the politics in im-
peachment with "a capital
P," Sam Garrison, a minor-
ity counsel, told the com-
mittee Monday that im-
peachment "is not a nar-
row question of what the
President did on a particu-
lar date or whether there
was complicity in a crime,
but whether the public in-
terest will be served or
disserved by removal of
the President from office."

The committee is com-
posed of 21 Democrats and
17 Republicans, all law-
yers. Among them are
four ex-FBI agents, nine
former prosecutors — and
four poets, including
chairman Peter W. Rodino
Jr. (D-N.J.).

For a group so large, it is
hardly typical of the
House of Representatives,
its Democrats tending to
be more liberal than their
colleagues in the House as

« hole, its Republicans
ing to be more conser-
vative than their GOP col-
legues.

Some Democrats, in-
cluding Rodino, have spe-
culated that the majority
will vote solidly to recom-
mend impeachment.
Among the Democrats,
only Flowers and another
Southerner — James R.
Mann of South Carolina—
are considered possible
votes against impeach-
ment.

Rodino has said he be-
lieves that at least five Re-
publican votes are needed
to make a strong case for
endorsement by the full
House. A simple majority
would be needed in the
435-member House to im-
peach the President, put-
ting him on trial in the
Senate where a two-thirds
vote (at least 67 senators)
would be needed to con-
vict.

One Republican vote has
already been recorded,
that of Rep. Lawrence J.
Hogan of Maryland, who
announced Tuesday he
would support impeach-
ment.

The committee majority
hopes that at least five
pro- impeachment votes
will come from what one
Democrat called "a pool of
persuadeables" among the
Republicans.

Rodino says he believes
that other Republicans
most likely to vote for im-
peachment are Reps. But-
ler, William S. Cohen
(Me.), Hamilton Fish Jr.
(N.Y.), Thomas F. Rails-
back (111.), Robert McClory
(111.) and Henry P. Smith
III (N.Y.).

Some Democrats are
saying that several other
Republicans now are con-
sidered as possible votes
for impeachment. They in-
clude: /

Charles W. Sandman Jr.
(N.J.), David W. Dennis
Ind.), Wiley Mayne (Iowa)
and Harold Froehlich
(Wis.).

The other Republican
members generally are de-
scribed by pro-impeach-
, ment Democrats as having
/ "their feet in concrete" in
their opposition to im-
< peachment.
j

They are, in addition to
Wiggins, who has been de- (
scribed by a fellow Repub- '
lican on the committee as 1
"the President's chief de- :
fense attorney," Reps. Ed-
ward Hutchinson (Mich.),
the ranking minority
member; Delbert L. Latta
(Ohio), Trent Lott (Miss.),
Joseph J. Maraziti (N.J.)
and Carlos J. Moorhead
(Calif.).

When the committee
votes on articles of im-
peachment, the vote will
be cast in the same man-
ner that it uses to vote on
all business matters. Rodi-
no will cast his vote after
all members of both par-
ties have voted. The
Democrats will vote first,
beginning with the sec-
ond-ranking member. Rep.
Harold D. Donohue
(Mass.), and continuing in
order of seniority. Hutch-
inson will cast the first
Republican vote, followed
by other minority mem- *
bers in order of seniority.

Thumbnail sketches of
all members, with Rodino
listed first, and other
Democrats in order of
their seniority and Repub-
licans in their order of se-
niority follow:

democrats

Chairman Peter W.
Rodino Jr. (N.J.), 65, serv-
ing his 25th year on the
committee, was raised
from relative obscurity by
what he frequently has de-
scribed as "the awesome
j responsibility" of the im-
j Peachment inquiry,
t The chairman has been
r credited by committee Re-
b P ub licans as well as Demo-
s crats with guiding the in-
\ quiry in an even-handed
p manner.

v Following a policy of
9 compromise, Rodino has
kept partisan wrangling to
G 1 minimum and hard-lin-
Y ?rs on both sides of the
t ssue from any serious re-

c bellion. Under his lead- •
1 e r s h i p, the committee
gave presidential counsel
James D. St. Clair a great-
er role in the proceedings
i than the Democrats
claimed he deserved under
the Constitution, but a
smaller role than the Re-
nublic&ns demanded.

As a member of me
committee, Rodino helped
rewrite the nation's im-
migration laws and draft-
ed majority reports for im-
portant civil rights legisla-
tion in the 1950s and
1960s. But he remained a
relatively obscure con-
gressman until 1973, when
he became chairman.

A 1937 law school grad-
uate of the University of
Newark (now Rutgers),
Rodino is in his 26th year
in the House. He was re-
elected with 80% of the
vote in 1972 and has omy
token opposition in the
general election this
November.

Harold D. Donohue

Mass.), 73, bachelor, has
represented Massa-
chusetts' 3rd District, a
manufactur ing area
around Worcester, the
state's second-largest city,
since 1946. Donohue, who
will retire in January, was
unopposed in the 1972
election. Th e President
polled only 46% of the
vote in his district in that
year.

Donohue keeps a low
and occasionally nodding
Drofile. He invariably sup-
oorts Rodino, who some-
imes calls upon him to
nake motions advanced
y the chairman. Donohue
erved in the Navy during
Vorld War II and was a
eutenant commander
rhen he. returned to clyili-
n life in 1945.

Americans for Demo-
ratic Action and another
iberal group that moni-
ors congressional votes,
he Committee for Politi-
:al Education (COPE) of
he AFL-CIO, give him a
nigh rating on the liberal
scorecard.

Jack Brooks (Tex.), 51,

whose criticism' of Mr.
Nixon is sprinkled with
Bxpletives and who has
made no secret of his sup-
aort for impeachment de-
spite the fact the Pres-
cient carried his district
by 60% in 1972. Brooks
carried it by 66%.

"One of these days,"
Brooks said recently, "the
Republicans are gonna
have to sit down to a bul-
let breakfast, and it's gon-
na break their (expletive
deleted) teeth."

A congressman since
1952, he majored in jour-
nalism at the University of
Texas, spent two years
overseas as a marine in
World War II, earned a
law degree at Texas, and
somgd in the state legisla-
tfl^He is a liberal and ci-
vil rights advocate. He
headed a subcommittee
which investigated federal
spending at Mr. Nixon's
homes in Key Biscayne
and San Clemente.

Robert W. Kasten-
meier (Wis.), 50, a con-
gressman since 1958,
whose voting record is rat-
ed a perfect 100 by ADA.
He was reelected in 1972
with 69% of the vote,
while Mr. Nixon lost the
district with 49%.

A 1952 graduate of the
University of Wisconsin
law school, his district in-
cludes the university, a
center of liberal and radi-
cal student activities.

Kastenmeier was quoted
in a recent interview as
saying, "Someone voting
against impeachment
from a district such as
mine would get a lot of
heat. People are outraged
with Mr. Nixon."

j^pre is scant chance
KSRnmeier will feel any
heat. William Dixon, an
attorney on his staff, was
the author of memos that
cited discrepancies be-
tween the White House-
edited tape transcript?
and those of the commit

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tee. The memos were then
leaked to the news media.

Don Edwards (Calif.),

? 9, an e x-FBI agent and
former chairman of ADA
perhaps the leading civil
libertarian on the commit-
tee. He helped persuade
Democrats to give St. Clair
a relatively broad role in
the inquiry and was a
t ad \l g strategist in keep-
ing the evidentiary hear-
ings closed.

Restrained in his anti-
Nixon position through
most of the hearings, Ed-
wards opposed releasing
committee evidence, con-
tending it violated Mr
•Nixon's right to due pro-
cess of law. Recently
however, he said the
evidence showed "crimin-
al activity and misconduct
on the part of the Pres-
ident almost since the
start of his Administra-
tion."

1n f. House member since
1963, he represents the
blue collar suburbs of the
9th District (Oakland to
ban Jose). He got 72% of
the vote in the district in
^; 72 > compared to 48% for
Mr. Nixon.

/n . W v iIliam L. Hungate
(Mo.), 51, a poet and song-
writer and former prose-
cutor , whose sparks of hu-
m o r have occasionally
brought a note of levity to
the otherwise solemn im-
peachment proceedings
Moderately liberal, "he
comes from a largely rural
district that gave 65% of
“ s votes to Mr. Nixon in
1972 and reelected Hun-
gate with 67% of the vote.

A 1943 graduate of the
University of Missouri, he
served as an infantryman
in Europe during World
War II, then earned a law
degree at Harvard in 1948
He was first elected to
Congress in 1954.

Commenting on the
committee's tapes of pres-
idential conversations, he
said "I think if the public
could hear those tapes
perhaps after the children
are in bed, that they can
form their own judgment."

John Conyers Jr.

Mich.), 45, the first black
member of the Judiciary
Committee and one of the
first congressmen to move
for impeachment of Mr.

Nixon. He won his Detroit
district in 1972 with 88%
of the vote: Mr. Nixon
polled 14%.

House talks about the
committee," Conyers says,
I wonder if we're the im-
peach ers or the im-
peachees."

He voted against a com-
mittee letter sent to Mr.
Nixon informing him he
w . a s ^ noncompliance
with a subpoena. His rea-
son: He felt the letter was
not strong enough.

Following Army service
m Korea, he earned a law
dogree at Wayne State
University in 1958. He was
i ocl e i ec ^ e d to Congress in

iyoTc.

Joshua Eilberg (Pa.),

o3, a former prosecutor.’
Relatively shy and soft-
s P°hen> he generated one
Of the biggest flaps of the
inquiry by publicly inter-
! preting evidence on wire-
- tapping as adverse to Sec-
retary of State Henry A
Kissinger.

A former majority leader
?,*, t h e c Penns ylvania
House of Representatives,
Eilberg represents the
state s middle-income res-
p.® 11 ? 1 , 4th District of
Philadelphia. He was first

icifi« ted T t0 i rF 0 11 g r e s s in
\ 966 / J n 1972 he re-
elected with 56% of the
vote compared to 69% for
Mr. Nixon.

• He majored in econom-
ics at the University of
Pennsylvania and after
graduation in 1941 served
as a Navy officer during
World Warll. He earned f*
law degree In 1948 at Tem-
ple University.

Jerome R. W a 1 d i e
£F a,I /-)» 49, who sponsored
the first impeachment re-
solution last fall after Mr
Nixon fired Archibald
th f firs t special
Watergate prosecutor.

Last April, before the

h^ m w e f,, . be ® an hear-
ings,. Waldie said, "What

the public already knows
sustains the charge that
wixon has committed im-
peachable offenses."

He represents Califor-
® heavily industrial
14th District (most of
Contra Costa County), was
first elected in 1966 and
has regularly won reelec-
tion with more than 70%
of the vote. He sacrificed a
chance- for almost certain
reelection by running for
governor in the Democrat-
19 primary this year and
finished a distant fifth in a
iield of seven.

He served as an Army
infantryman during
World War II, received his
law degree from UC Berke-
ley in 1953 and served 11
^^ars in the California
^Bgislature.

Walter Flowers (Ala.),

41, who has come in for
c o n s i d erable attention
from Rodino in what the
White House would call
"stroking" sessions. Rodi-
no is known to believe
that Flowers’ vote for im-
peachment is important
for the Democrats- to put
up a solid front in the com-
mittee and for articles of
impeachment to attract
significant support from
Southern Democrats on
the House floor.

As the evidentiary hear-
ings ended, a reporter
asked Flowers how he
planned to vote. "I’m in
the fork of the tree," he re-
plied, "and I'm not coming
down until the roll is call-
ed up yonder."

H i s district reelected
him with 85% of the vote
in 1972, with Mr. Nixon
polling 66%. He earned
his law degree at the Uni-
^^rsity of Alabama.

^Rames R. Mann (S.C.),

54, a former prosecutor,
who polled 66% of his dis-
trict’s vote in 1972, com-
pared to 80% for Mr. Nix-
on.

Mann has criticized the
President for refusing to
r e 1 i n quish subpoenaed
tapes and documents and
has defended Rodino
against White House
charges of bias. He has re-
frained from commenting
on the evidence.

A graduate of the Cita-
del, he served in the Army
in World WAr II and was

discharged in 1946 as a
lieutenant colonel at the
age of 26. He earned a law
degree at the University of
South Carolina in 1947 and
practiced law in Green-
ville, served as a state leg-
islator and a county prose-
cutor before being elected
to Congress in 1968.

Paul S. Sarbanes
(Md.), 41, the son of Greek
■^migrants, a Rhodes
Blholar and former state
legislator who represents
the Baltimore suburbs of
his state's 3rd District.
First elected to Congress
in 1970, he was reelected
in 1972 with 70% of the

district's vote, compared
to 67% for Mr. Nixon.

He has not commented
on the evidence but has
said he believes an im-
peachable offense does not
necessarily have to be a
criminal violation.

He was a scholarship re-
cipient at Princeton Uni-
versity where he was a
classmate and friend of
consumer advocate Ralph
Nader. He received a law
degree at Harvard in 1960.

John F. Seiberling
(Ohio), 55, first elected to
Congress in 1970 in a cam-
paign based on peace and
e n v i ronment, reelected
with 74% of the vote in
1972 when his district
gave Mr. Nixon 49% of the
vote.

As he prepared for de-
bating the impeachment
issue this week, Seiberling
said, "If we find the Pres-
ident has abused his office
to the point he has jeopar-
dized the framework of
the Constitution, we have
to come to a political deci-
sion that we cannot permit
that conduct or all future
Presidents will be allowed
to follow that standard
and the : scheme of the
founding fathers will be
yndermined. We’re decid-
ing not an ordinary cri-
minal offense but an of-
fense against the Constitu-
tion."

A World War II Army
veteran, he was graduated
from Harvard in 1941 and
from Columbia law school
in 1949. He also writes
poetry.

George E. Danielson
(Calif.), 59, an ex-FBI
agent and former assistant
federal prosecutor in Los
Angeles, who was first
elected in 1970 and reelect-
ed in 1972 with 63% of the
vote. He represents the
29th District, an area of
Los Angeles suburbs where
electronics and aircraft
are major industries. The
district gave Mr. Nixon
54% of the vote in 1972.

He has been one of the
most active members of
the inquiry, leading the ef-
fort against permitting St.
Clair to turn the investiga-
tion into an adversary
proceeding. He counseled
against citing Mr. .Nixon
prematurely for contempt,
saying, "That's like giving
a traffic ticket to a bank
robber. We have the great-
est enforcement power for
our subpoenas known to
mankind: impeachment."

After being graduated in
1939 from the University
of Nebraska law school,
Danielson served as ah
FBI agent until 1943 when
he joined the Navy. He
served in the California
Legislature from 1962 to
1970.

Robert F. Drinan
(Mass.), 53, a Jesuit priest,
first elected to Congress in
1970 with only 38% of the
vote and reelected in 1972
with 49.6%, compared to
44% for Mr. Nixon.

The first Roman Catho-
lic clergyman to serve in
Congress, Father Drinan
also was the first member
of Congress to call formal-
ly for the President's im-
peachment. An exuberant
liberal he has been labeled
the "mad monk" by some
of his critics in the House.
j He holds a law degree
from Georgetown law cen-
ter and is former dean of
the Boston College law
school.

Charles B. Rangel
(N.Y.), 44, a former
prosecutor, born and
reared in Harlem, first
elected to Congress in 1970
after defeating the late
R e p. AdamClayton
Powell Jr. in the Demo-
cratic primary. The 19th
District reelected him by a
96% vote in 1972 when it
gave Mr. Nixon 19%.

He first urged an im-
peachment inquiry in
June, 1973.

He served in the Army
from 1948 to 1952, was
graduated from the New
York University school of
commerce in 1957 and
earned a law degree at St.
John's University in 1960,
He served as an assistant
U.S. attorney, a counsel to
the Speaker of the state
Assembly and as a state
legislator.

Barbara C. Jordan
(Tex.), 38, elected in 1972
from Houston's new 18th
District, the first black
woman elected to Con-
gress from the South. The
district, which is 42%
black and 20% Mexican-
American, gave her 81%
of the vote; Mr. Nixon
polled 35%.

The articulate Congress-
woman has not comment-
ed on the evidence but has
been outspoken in criticiz-
ing the President for re-
fusing to comply with
committee subpoenas. Ro-
dino frequently has looked
to her for advice and lead-
ership on procedural mat-
ters.

A 1956 graduate of Texas
Southern University, she
has a law degree from Bos-
ton University. In 1966 she
was elected to the Texas
Senate, the only woman in
N ] he 30-member body, and
four years later was elect-
ed its president pro tem-
pore.

Ray Thornton (Ark.) 45

a former Arkansas attor-
, genera1 ^ elected in
1972 by an agriculture and
timber district which gave
69% of its vote to Mr. Nix-
on. His colleagues general-
ly expect him to vote for
impeachment.

He was graduated from
Yale University in 1950
with a degree in political
science, served in the
Navy during the Korean
war and earned a law de-
gree at the University of
Arkansas in 1956.

(N.Y.), 32, an activist in
liberal causes who sued
President Nixon last year
for bombing Cambodia
without the consent of
Congress. She is the rea-
son that Rodino, rather
than 86-year-old Emanuel
Celler, is directing the im-
peachment inquiry. She
upset Celler, a congress-
man for 49 years and long-
time Judiciary Committee
chairman, in the 1972
Democratic primary and
went on to win election
with 66% of the vote in
the Brooklyn district. Mr
Nixon polled 46%.

Miss Holtzman has said
the evidence shows Mr.
Nixon has not lived up to
his oath of office. A grad-
uate of Radcliffe College,
she earned a law degree at
Harvard. She has prac-
ticed law in New York and
worked on the staff of for-
mer Mayor John Y. Lind-
say.

Wayne Owens (Utah),

37, who was elected in
1972 with 55% of the vote
in a district that voted

• f 0 for Mr. Nixon.

L former administrative
assistant to Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy (D-Mass.),
Owens acknowledges a
"built - in antipathy” for
Mr. Nixon, but said, "I will
vote my own conscience
and judgment" on im-
peachment. He spearhead-
ed the drive that resulted
in approval of television
coverage for the hearings.

A graduate of the Uni-
versity of Utah, he served
as a Mormon missionary
from 1957 to 1960. He was
Rocky Mountain states
coordinator for the late

Robert F. Kennedy’s pres-
idential campaign in 1968.

Edward Mezvinsky
(Iowa), 37, who c a m-
paigned against the Viet-
nam war and the Nixon
Administration in 1972 in
unseating Rep. Fred
Schwengel (R-Iowa).

A consumer advocate
and liberal, Mezvinsky

R ys of the impeachment
quiry, "It is not just
Richard Nixon who is on
trial here but the Congress
and maybe the whole
country."

A graduate of the Uni-
versity of Iowa, he has a
master’s degree in politi-
cal science and a law de-
gree from UC Berkeley.

Mezvinsky has served in
the Iowa Legislature.

REPUBLICANS

Edward Hutchinson,
(Mich.), 59, first elected to
the House in 1963. He is
considered a "constituent
congressman," a man who
has won reelection be-
cause of his attention to
problems of his district
rather than addressing na-
tional issues. He is rank-
ing minority member on
the committee.

A quiet, conservative
man, he has said, "We've
only got one President,
and impeachment of a
President is something the
country can't afford."

K utchinson is the only
ember of the committee
who voted against every
one of the subpoenas for
White House tapes and
documents, arguing in the
end that the subpoenas
were unenforceable.

One of two millionaires
on the committee, Hutch-
inson represents a largely
rural district around the
industrial town of Benton
Harbor arid the residential
community of St. Joseph
on the Michigan - Indiana
border.

Robert McClory (111.),

65, came to the House the
same year Hutchinson did,
but is the second-ranking
Republican on the com-
mittee because he lost to
Hutchinson in a draw for
the ranking position.

McClory, however, has
been the leader of the Re-
publicans on the commit-
tee. He was one of the
chief sponsors of Albert E.
Jenner Jr. for the minority
counsel's job and later be-
came sharply critical of
Jenner when he sub-
scribed to the staff ar-
guments for the Pres-
ident's impeachment.

A talkative man whose
views on the impeachment
question have sometimes
seemed to change daily, he
has been a supporter of
the Nixon legislative pro-
grams, voting with the
Administration 67% of the
time in 1973. His district is
in the outer Chicago sub-
urbs.

Henry P. Smith III,
(N.Y.), 62, a conservative
who is retiring at the end
of his current term after
10 years in the House. He
acknowledges he would
like to have a presidential
appointment as * congres-
sional liaison to the U.S.
mission to the United Na-
tions.

Smith has a reputation
for integrity among his
House colleagues and said
he saw no conflict of inter-
est in his desire for a pres-
idential appointment and
his upcoming vote on im-
peachment. He is a grad-
uate of Dartmouth College
and the Cornell University
law school.

He is considered one of
the potential Republican
votes for impeachment.

C h a r 1 e s W. Sandman
(N.J.), 52, a conservative
who has represented a
coastal and agricultural
district since 1967. He was
defeated in a 1973 race for
governor, losing his own
district, which he had car-
ried by 66% in his 1972
House race.

An Air Corps navigator
during World War II, he

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JJfional race with less
than 5,000 votes in 1968,
but since then has been
reelected by votes of more
than 70%.

Wiley Mayne (Iowa),

56, supporter of the Nixon
Administration on 70% ot
his votes, considered a
swing vote among Repub-
licans.

He raised the question of
how 15 members of the
committee who accepted
campaign contributions
from milk producers could
sit in judgment on im-
peachment cha rges
against Mr. Nixon that in-
clude allegations the Pres-
ident raised milk support
prices in exchange for con-
tributions from dairy
cooperatives.

A- former FBI agent,
Mayne was elected to Con-
gress on his first try for
elective office in 1966. He
is a graduate of Harvard
^Uaiiversity the University
Iowa law school, and is
sTworld War II Navy vet-
eran.

He has shied away from
discussion of evidence be-
fore the committee, but he
has said he believes a Pres-
ident must be guilty of a
crime before he can be im-
peached.

Lawrence J. H 0 3 *¥*

Md.), 45, a philosophical
and, until now, political
ally of the President, who
announced Tuesday he
would vote for impeach-
ment. Hogan, running for
governor in Maryland on
an anticorruption plat-
form, had been mentioned
as- a "persuable" Republi-
can because of the guber-
natorial campaign, but he
was not generany counted
among pro-impeachment

A former FBI agent, Ho-
gan was at the outset of
the impeachment inquiry
one of the most partisan
members on the Republi-

• can .side. Hogan was born
in Boston, the son of a
.printer. His district is in
. ' the Washington sviburbsof
Prince Georges and Mont
gomery counties.

M . Caldwell Butler
tVal, 48, a supporter of
the* Nixon Administration

7 5 % of the time m 1973,

- but considered a potential
vote for impeachment be-
cause he has made a dis

tinction between the polit-
ical and legal aspects of
the impeachment inquiry.
Butler, who was elect

to the House from a l trady
tionally Republics dis

trict in southwest Virgin

A EaSy y in the 1 " vea Jjg

of cease-fire." Considered
one of the more capable
lawyers on the committee,
Butler has acknowledged
that the impeachment
question weighs heavily
upon him. ”1 find myseH
thinking about it
church," he said.

Williuh 1 S. Cohen
(Me.), 33, a freshman rep-
resentative, poet, fo™ e J-
mayor of Bangor and a
former prosecutor.

Cohen is widely expect-
ed to cast a pro-impeach-
ment vote, largely because
of his liberal tendencies.

He comes from a district
that is closely divided be-
tween Republicans and
Democrats. "The outcome
is going to be harmful, no
matter what," he has said.
"So in the end, I just have
to follow my conscience
and do what is right.

An all-state basketball
player, Cohen majored m
Latin at Bowdoin College
and studied law at the
Boston University law
school.

ChesterTrent Lott

(Miss.), 32, whose Gulf
Coast district produced
the largest vote for Mr.
Nixon of any Histnct m
the nation in 1972—87%^

He is a 1967 graduate of
the University of Missis-
sippi law school. He sup-
ported the President’s po-
sition 69% of the time in
Congress in 1973. His dis-
trict is a rapidly growing
resort, industrial and sea-
food area.

Harold V. Froehlich
(Wis.), 42, a former speak-
er of the Wisconsin House
of Representatives, who
was elected in 1972 with
50.4% of the vote.

His district gave Mr.
Nixon 61% of its vote in

1972. ‘ IT V

Froehlich generally has

been regarded as a vote
against impeachment, al-
though some colleagues
have labeled him as a
"persuad able." Asked
where he might rank on a
list of eight Republican
swing votes, he said,
"number eight.”

He is a 1962 graduate of
the University of Wiscon-
sin law school. The Ameri-
cans for Constitutional Ac-
tion, a conservative group,
gives him an 89% favora-
ble voting record.

Carlos J. Moorhead (Cal-
if.), 52, elected in 1972
with 57% of the vote from
the suburban Los Angeles
20th District which cast
68% of its vote for Mr.
Nixon.

One of the most taciturn
members of the commit-
tee, Moorhead is a strong
Nixon supporter. As the
evidentiary hearings
neared an end, Moorhead
said, "You can spend $25
million to investigate any
President and come up
with the same informa-
tion. I’ve seen nothing to
convince me he should be
impeached.”

A graduate of UCLA, he
has a law degree from

use.

The first Republican to be
elected to Congress from
his district since Recon-
struction, Lott has been
one of the President s
strongest supporters on
the committee.

Joseph J. Maraziti (N.J.),

62, elected in 1972 with
56% of the vote from the
state's new 13th District,
which Mr. Nixon carried
with 70%.

He is proof that not all
leaks of evidence heard in
the committee’s closed-
door sessions came from
Democrats. In releasing
several documents, Mara-
ziti said it was "a legiti-
mate leak" and that he
tried to leak information
on a fair basis — without
discriminating against any
newsman. He has been a
Nixon supporter.

A 1937 graduate of
Fordham University law
school, he is a former
county prosecutor and a
former state legislator. His
COPE voting rating of
73% is the highest among
committee Republicans.

Delbert L. Latta (Ohio),

54, who was first elected
to Congress in 1958, but
who is last in seniority be-
cause he was not appoint-
ed to the committee until
shortly before the im-
peachment inquiry began.
Selected for his strong
partisanship, according to
Republican sources, he
has said "not one scintilla
of evidence" links the
President to an impeach-
able offense.

Latta’s district gave
Mr. Nixon 66% of its vote
in 1972. The congressman
has been reelected with
margins of about 70%
since he was first elected.
A former member of the
Ohio Senate, he has a law
degree from Ohio North-
ern University.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats
and Republicans who voted to recommend
President Nixon’s impeachment Saturday
night called it a grave and sobering deci-
sion but Nixon’s backers on the House Ju-
diciary Committee predicted better odds
in the fulLHouse.

“When you get right down to casting
that vote you realize what a grave and se-
rious thing it is.” said Rep. Paul S. Sar-
banes. D-Md., chief sponsor of the
Watergate cover-up impeachment article
approved 27 to 11.

Texas Democrat Barbara Jordan, who
voted with Sarbanes, said. “There were
tears among the men and women of the
committee behind the doors and off the ca-
meras after the vote was announced.”

Sarbanes said after weeks of weighing
the evidence on Watergate, abuse of pow-
er and “how the public trust has been vio-
lated.” he had no choice but to carry the
impeachment article. “But there is no joy
in it.” he said.

One of Nixon's chief backers, Rep.
Delbert L. Latta. R-Ohio, said chances are
good the full House will not approve im-

peachment articles from the Judiciary
Committee.

“If you want my candid opinion, I nev-
er thought, they (Nixon and his aides) had
a chance in this committee.” Latta said.

Vice President Gerald R. Ford, the
onetime House Republican leader who
would become president if Nixon were re-
moved from office, said the full House
would reject impeachment if it considers
the issue solely on the facts.

He also told a news conference on the
lawn of his suburban Virginia home that,
“the fact that every Democrat voted for it
tends to make it a partisan issue.”

Rep. Charles W Sandman Jr., R-N.J.
one of the President’s most ardent
defenders in the committee, said there is
no way to know what will happen between
now and Aug. 22 when the House is
tentatively scheduled to vote on impeach-

mer ^As badly as a lot of people dislike
Nixon, there are a lot of people who don’t
want their President moved out of office,”
Sandman said. “And no one knows how
that is going to develop.”

Sarbanes would not attempt to predict
the outcome in the House, but remarked
that 70 per cent of the committee voted for
the article of impeachment.

“I think the committee will be able to
document its charges....” he said. “We
will have no problem meeting the require-
ment that the President and his counsel
know what he is charged with.... The sub-
stance of the article is strong and the sup-
porting material is strong.”

The article will be accompanied by a
detailed report to the House, he said.

Rep. Harold V. Froelich. RWis., who
had said earlier his vote would depend on
the wording of the articles of impeach-
ment. said he didn’t decide until Saturday
to vote for the article.

Two other Republicans who voted for
impeachment appeared deeply moved and
had little to say.

“It isCa sad occasion.” said Rep. Wil-
liam S. Cohen. RMaine.

“I'd rather not talk about it.” said
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler. R-Va.

Staunton, Va., Newsreader, Sun., |uly 28, 1974

Rep. Butler
to be on ‘Face
the Nation’

U.s. Rep. Caldwell Butler will
appear on Cbs’s “Face the
Nation” today. With him, to be
questioned by a panel of
newsmen, will be U.S. Rep. R ay
Thornton, D-Ark. They are both

jto ;

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David Tennant Bryan, Chairman and Publisher
Alan S. Donnahoe, President and Associate Publisher
John E. Learb, Executive Editor Air Goodykoontz, Managing Editor
■ : Edward Grimsley, Editor of the Editorial Page

Monday, July 29, 1974

Saddening

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Tears welied up in the eyes of
some members of the. House
Judiciary Committee when it voted
^ to recommend the impeachment of

President Nixon, and grief filled
the hearts of many Americans.

: Surely, it was one of the most sad-

dening moments in the nation’s
history.

Today, the country’s highest and
most powerful leader stands of-
ficially accused by a congressional
; committee of criminal conduct—

! of preventing, obstructing and im-

peding the administration of
T. justice. Yet to be acted upon are
*; other accusations against the
: : President. But no matter how the
committee disposes^.of.them, lit is
; certain that the House of Represen-
1; • tatives wili vote on the question of
impeaching Mr. Nixon. Should the
- i House accept the Judiciary Com-
j mittee’s recommendation on a

single article of impeachment, the
President will face trial, and possi-
ble eviction, by the Senate.

Nixon

That the case against Richard M.
Nixon could have evolved to such a
tragic point is distressing beyond
words. Here is a man who rebound-
ed from two major political
defeats, one of them thought to
have been fatal to his career, to at-
tain the nation’s highest public of-
fice. Here is a man who won reelec-
tion only 20 months ago with the
largest popular vote a presidential
candidate ever received. Here is a
J man who ended one of America’s
most demoralizing wars, who mov-
ed the nation into a hopeful new era
of constructive contacts with the
Soviet Union and Communist China
and who has pointed the Middle
East in the direction of durable
peace. Here is a man who might

have promoted domestic reforms
that could have given the country
more responsible government,
more realistic social programs and
a more efficient economy. Here is a
man who has done much for
America and for the world. And he
standson thebrinkof utterpolitical
ruin and total disgrace.

All of this is especially agonizing
for those of us who have been sup-
porters of Richard Nixon and who
have fervently hoped, ever since
the ugly news of Watergate flashed
around the world, that he could
decisively refute the damaging
charges and suspicions against
him. This, painful though it is to
say, he has not yet done. To be sure,
the President has been found guilty
of no crime; and he may yet be ex- *
onerated, if not by the House then
possibly by the Senate. But as it
has been summarized by the
Judiciary Committee, the case
against the President is powerful.

Mr. Nixon’s own words, taken
from his own tapes and his own
transcripts, portray him as a man
who was at least willing to consider
condoning perjury, the paymentof
hush money and other illegal acts
to conceal the truth about the crime
of Watergate. His own words
portray him as a man more in-
terested in finding ways to circum-
vent the law than in ways to enforce
it. The disturbing and damaging
implications of these words the
President has yet to overcome.

There is no doubt that Mr. Nixon
often has been unfairly and even
viciously treated during the
Watergate controversy. Frequent-
ly he has been the victim of blatant
political partisanship and of pre-
judicial journalism. Even some
members of the J udiciary Commit-
tee displayed contempt for the
elementary rules of fairness at
times, and some of them may have
been motivated as much by hatred
for Richard Nixon as by the
evidence against him in voting to
recommend his impeachment. Blit
it would be difficult to argue that
the committee’s decision was
purely an act of political vindic-
tiveness when one-third of the
Republican members— including
Virginia Rep. M. Caldwell Butler,
normally a Nixon suppor-
ter-voted with the Democratic
majority ; and since so much of the
case against the President, the
President himself has built

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CLIFTON K>KW, »m., muni/Hi

Committee moves to finish
2nd impeachment article;
'stand may hurt/ Butler

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chairman
Peter Rodino is conducting sessions
of the House Judiciary Committee
today and tonight in an effort to
complete action on a second
impeachment article. Members say
article two will accuse Pres. Nixon
of violating his constitutional oath
in several ways. The charges are
expected to include illegal use of
federal agencies and wiretapping
without justification. Bipartisan
approval is expected.

Because southern Democrats and
several Republicans on the
committee are supporting
impeachment, it now seems likely
that a majority of the full House
will go along. Even White House
Chief of Staff Alexander Haig
admits a House vote now would be
very close.

A House majority for
impeachment would force a trial in
the Senate. And today, the Senate’s
Republican and Democratic leaders
plan a meeting to launch formal
plans for a trial. The assistant
Democratic leader, Robert Byrd,
said yesterday that there are not
yet enough impeachment votes to
convict the President. But he said
the chances are growing every day.

Butler said

Virginia congressman M.
Caldwell Butler has acknowledged
that his stand in support of
impeaching Nixon will hurt his bid
for re-election in the fall.

Butler said that his stand has
offended some strong party
regulars, and Butler says he owes
his job to them.

But the ' Sixth District'
Representative said the significance
of the impeachment vote far
outweighs his political future or the
political future of anyone else in
Congress. Butler said he felt that
the politically expedient thing for
him to do would have been to
oppose impeachment. Butler’s
district has been strongly pro-Nixon
in previous elections.

Butler also answered criticism
that the first article of
impeachment against the President
is not specific enough. The
freshman Congressman said he
feels that the article is a strong
statement of the case and that it
tells the President what he is
charged with.

Hurt in race

Although Butler said his vote
would hurt him in his Fall race for
the Sixth District seat, political
observers in Virginia speculated
over the weekend that Butler’s
stance would have little impact.
Observers surveyed pointed out
that Butler has no pro-Nixon
opponent in the Fall race.

Yesterday, Butler said on the

CBS television program “Face the
Nation” that he believes the House
will impeach Nixon by a margin
.similar to the committee’s 27-11
vote for impeachment. . The vote
was on the first article of
impeachment, charging Nixon with
obstruction of justice. Butler said at
least one-third of the Repbulicans
in the House will vote for
impeachment.

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435 MEMBERS IN HOUSE

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Lengthy Impeachment Debate Predicted

An AP News Analysis

By DONALD M. ROTHBERG

WASHINGTON (AP) - The
impeachment debate under
way in the House Judiciary
Committee is but a preview of
what will take place in mid-
August on the floor of the
House.

That was assured Saturday
when the committee voted 27
to 11 to recommend to the
House that it impeach Presi-
dent Nixon.

But instead of 38 debaters
the number will be 435 when
the question reaches the House
floor. f

They will repeat many of
the arguments heard in the
committee debate, wrangle
over wording and procedures
and treat one another with
elaborate parliamentary
courtesy tinged with sarcasm
in debate expected to last 60 to
100 hours over a period of
about two weeks.

There has been no decision
yet on whether to permit radio
and television coverage of the
House debate. The broadcast
coverage of the committee de-
bate is the first ever allowed
by the House.

The pressure is on to extend
it to the House debate and the
odds seem in favor of approval.

If the debate is broadcast,
the American people will see

further proof of what they are
discovering while viewing the
committee sessions: Some of
history’s most significant and
dramatic moments unfold with
an agonizing slowness and pre-
occupation with minute de-
tails.

There will be Rep. Charles
Wiggins, the silver-haired Re-
publican lawyer from South-
ern California, attacking point
by point the case against the
President with the studied
calm and logic of an ex-
perienced trial attorney.

And once again, Republican
Rep. Charles Sandman of New
Jersey will direct his criticism
at the Democratic majority.

They have led the
President’s defense within the

committee and they will play
major roles on the House floor.

But one of the most impor-
tant votes will occur before the
House impeachment debate be-
gins. It will be in the House
Rules Committee, the 15-mem-
ber panel that will decide
whether the articles, of im-
peachment can be amended or
must be voted up or down as
reported to the House floor.

The expectation is that the
articles will be open for
amendment, a procedure that
will permit every House mem-
ber to offer whatever changes
he wants, even additional
articles of impeachment.

There will be a bewildering
array of changes offered, with
some accepted quickly, others

rejected, and still others touch-
ing off hours of wrangling.

The overriding themes are
likely to be the same as within
the committee.

Impeachment backers will
argue that the evidence
against Nixon is clear and con-
clusive.

From the anti-impeachable
forces will come demands for
more definitive evidence,
claims that Nixon is being
blamed for actions of his aides.

And when the final votes
are taken on articles, impeach-
ment will be approved or re-
jected by simple majorities.
Only in the Senate when a vote
is taken on conviction is a two-
thirds majority required.

. BER S INTERVIEWED - House Judiciary

bers M. Caldwell Butler, right, of Virginia’s Sixfh District, and Rav Thornton D-Ark
chat prior to start of CBS “Face the Nation” Sunday in Washington. After voting in
tavor of first article of impeachment Saturday some panel members worked privately
Sunday shaping further charges against President Nixon.

Stand On Impeachment
May Hurt, Says Butler

Washington (AP)^Rep.

3-£ a J d ^ elI _ Bu tler, R-Va., ac^'
Kno_\ylegg |g Sunda y TTfsTe-
cision to support the Im p e ach-
* ment of President Nixon “un-
dou ***%" will be Jiarm furto
nis bid' for re-electldn liTTTTs
home m -District in Western
Virginia.

«*lt clearly has offended
sgPfljoL Quiy str ong paffjTp pn.
^pie to whom I owe my job . ’ ’
° u “ er sa td — in an interview
#, ^Ith Richmond television sta-
d^~WT VgI^3

Butler said his vote for the
impeachmerrrof Mr . Nixon is a
factor_that the voter will have
io_laEe intp^)n si deration, bu t
jhe freshman Republican con-

,,.gl^gsrnan_rep eated "something
liia ve^aid^ ma ny times bfeTcnre:-
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.yole fanout weigjs~tHe~poritical
Juture^qTme or anybod\ r eTs~e~
. mXpngre^.rf’s niy first term
, and the joj) is not so good that
I would fe e rcgffipelfeft to m alre~
Jhe judgment on a poTitTcalex-
p ediency.” ~~t ~ —

Butler said he felt, on the
contrary, the politically expe-
dient thing for him would have
been to oppose the impeach-
ment of the President.

Turning to the criticism by
some of Nixon’s supporters
that the first article of im-
peachment against the Presi-
dent wasn’t specific enough,

1 , y J an uug-

ly that we have a strong
statement of the case, which is
what the function of an article
of impeachment is.. .to tell the
President of the United States
the things with which he is
charged.”

Butler added that the House
Judiciary Committee set out
general areas of the evidence
in the article charging Nixon
with obstructing justice and
the actual setting forth of
time, place and specific details
is “not the function of the
original pleading in any liti-*
gation.” • ~

Butler, appearing on the
CBS interview program, “Face

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he expects the vote in the full
House to mirror the 27-11
margin in the committee.

He also predicted that at
least one-third of the Re-
publicans in the House would
vote for impeachment.

^Although Butler’s acknowl-
edgment that his recent ac-
Uons could b^fraughTydtF
ha rmful political conse-
quences, observers in Virginia
speculated over the weekend
that the impact on his bid for
re-election in the district might
be minimal since none of his
three opponents in the race are
Nixon supporters.

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f 2 THE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Monday, July 29, 1974

er Admits Impeachment Stand Is Harmful

WASHINGTON (AP)— Vir-

ginia’s man on the House
Judiciary Committee, Rep. M.

Caldwell Butler, knows he’s also
on the hot seat, but says the job
of a congressman isn’t so good
that he’d play politics with
Presidential impeachment just
to save his skin.

Butler said in an interview

here Sunday he realizes his de-
cision to support articles of im-
peachment against Richard M.
Nixon hasn’t set well with many
of his supporters in the 6th
District.

But, said Butler, holdi ng his

ground, “The significance of the
vote far outweighs the political
future of me or anybody else in
Congress.”

The freshman Republican also
told a national television
audience later on the CBS in-
terview program, “Face the
Nation,” that he believes the full
House will impeach the
President by a margin similar to
that on the committee, which
voted 27-11 late Saturday on the
first article of impeachment.

At least one-third of the Re-
publican members of the House
will support impeachment, he
said.

Butler admitted his decision to
vote for impeachment could be
harmful, politically.

Butler: Vote To Hurt Re-election Bid

WASHINGTON (AP)-Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler, R-Va., acknowledged Sunday his deci-
sion to support the impeachment of President
Nixon “undoubtedly” will be harmful to his bid
for re-election in his home 6th District in West-
ern Virginia.

“It clearly has offended some of our strong
party people to whom I owe my job,” Butler
said in an interview with Richmond television
station WTVR.

Butler said his vote for the impeachment
of Mr. Nixon is a factor that the voter will have
to take into consideration, but the freshman
Republican congressman repeated “something
I have said many times before.”

“The significance of this vote far out-

— iff shs wm HHHI

weighs the political future )f me or anybody
else in Congress... It’s my first term and the
job is not so good that I woull feel compelled to
make the judgment on a political expediency.”

Butler said he felt, on tt* contrary, the po-
litically expedient thing iot him would have
been to oppose the impeachment of the Presi-
dent.

Turning to the criticisn) by some of Nix-
on s supporters that the fifst article of im-
peachment against the president wasn't
specific enough, Butler &id “I feel very
strongly that we have a strong statement of the
case, which is what the funcion of an article of
impeachment is... to tell tty President of the
United States the things vith which he is
charged.”

Butler added that the House Judiciary
Committee set out general areas of the evi-
dence in the article charging Nixon with ob- _ J
structing justice and the actual setting forth of 7 j j A
time, place and specific details is “not the l /
function of the original pleading in any litiga-
tion.” , in

Although Butler’s acknowledgment that /I V
his recent actions could be fraught with harm- 7
ful political consequences, observers in Virgin- // C
ia speculated over the weekend that the impact
on his bid for re-election in the district might
be minimal since none of his three opponents in
the race are Nixon supporters.

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Opinions Point

To Impeachment

By GAYLORD SHAW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Members of the House Ju-
diciary Committee were shaping additional charges
against President Nixon on Sunday amid growing
predictions from both Republicans and Democrats
that impeachment is likely.

Nixon, meanwhile was
flying back from a California
working vacation, already
focusing on the full House,
where he predicts he will win
vindication.

The committee voted 27 to 11
Saturday night to recommend

Nixon’s impeachment for hav-
ing “prevented, obstructed and
impeded administration of jus-
tice’’ in the Watergate cov-
erup. All 21 Democrats and six
of the 17 Republicans on the
committee voted for the article
of impeachment.

Senate Majority Whip Rob-
ert C. Byrd, D-W. Va., pre-
dicted Sunday the House will
impeach Nixon.

He said the votes were not
yet present for a Senate convic-
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More Charges

Continued From A-l
tion, but that “the possibilities
for conviction, I think, are
growing daily.”

A majority vote in the
House is needed for impeach-
ment, with a two-thirds vote
required in the Senate for con-
viction and removal from of-
fice.

One of the six committee
Republicans who voted for the
impeachment recommenda-
tion, Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
of Virginia, said Sunday he
expects the vote in the full
House to mirror the margin in
the committee.

Appearing on the CBS in-
terview program, “Face the
Nation,” Butler predicted at
least one-third of the Re-
publicans in the House would
vote for impeachment.

Another committee mem-
ber, Rep. Ray Thornton, D-
Ark., predicted on the same
program that a number of
Southern Democrats also will
support impeachment.

Rep. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md.,
sponsor of the impeachment
article approved Saturday
night, told newsmen, “I think
the judgment reached by a 70
per cent majority of the com-
mittee will have an impact on
the House.”

One of Nixon’s defenders on
the committee, Rep. David W.
Dennis, R-Ind., acknowledged
“that’s the popular wisdom
and I suppose there’s some
truth to it.”

House Democratic leader
Thomas P. O’Neill of Massa-
chusetts, who has repeatedly
predicted the House would ap-
prove impeachment by a
margin of 60 votes or more,
predicted after the
committee’s 2711 decision that
impeachment would carry by
at least 70 votes.

Democratic committee
members caucused Sunday to
discuss additional articles of
impeachment. Many were in
casual dress and most ap-
peared relieved that the
climactic vote was behind
them.

“Last night was the first
good night’s sleep I’ve had in a
month,” said Rep. Walter
Flowers, D-Ala. “I’m glad it’s
over.”

The committee probably

won’t conclude its nationally
televised and broadcast de-
liberations until Tuesday.

When it reconvenes at 10:30
a.m. EDT today, it will take up
other articles of impeachment
which sponsors spent the week-
end refining.

The first probably will be a
broad article charging Nixon
with violating the constitu-
tional requirements of his of-
fice by various acts, ranging
from alleged misuse of the In-
ternal Revenue Service to set-
ting up the White House plum-
bers unit.

The committee’s second-
ranking Republican, Rep. Rob-
ert McClory of Illinois, has
drafted such an article. He also
has prepared another one ac-
cusing Nixon of contempt of
Congress for failing to comply
with eight committee sub-
poenas for 147 taped conversa-
tions. McClory voted against
the article of impeachment ap-
proved by the committee on
Saturday.

^Another article, being
drafted by Rep. Edward
Mezvinsky, DIowa, charges
Nixon with claiming un-
authorized income tax deduc-
tions and using government
funds to improve his California
and Florida homes.

Nixon was returning to
Washington Sunday from a 16-
day stay in his San Clemente
estate.

The President was strolling
on the Pacific beach when the
committee voted Saturday
night.

He picked up an outdoor tel-
ephone to receive word of the
vote from one of his closest
aides, Press Secretary Ronald
L. Ziegler.

“The President was not sur-
prised. We have expected this
...” said spokesman Gerald L.
Warren.

Later, the Western White
House issued a terse
statement:

“The President remains con-
fident that the full House will
recognize that there simply is
not the evidence to support
this or any other article of
impeachment and will not vote
to impeach. He is confident
because he knows he has com-
mitted no impeachable of-
fense.”

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Callers give Nixon 2-1 edge

From Page 1

peached.”

"I think the whole House Ju-
diciary Committee should do
some soul-searching and clean
the skeletons out of their own
closet first.”

•‘This is what the Commu-
nists want.”

“An extreme injustice has
been done to a great Presi-
dent.”

*Tm against impeachment.
When a man is elected by a
landslide or any other method
we should stand behind him
and help him and stop being so
unduly critical. We’re all guilty
of something so why crucify
one man? Look at all the good
he's done.”

“Yes. I feel he is a crimi-
nal.”

“No impeachment! No evi-
dence! The Nixon haters and
the media are trying to ruin the
country.”

“I do not think he should be
impeached because of the ad-
verse effect it would have on
our nation.”

“No longer can I as a Chris-
tian teen-ager have faith in a
government with such corrup-
tion and abuse of power.”

“He bought his way into of-
fice with bribes from big busi-
ness which the American
taxpayers paid for with blood
and sweat.”

’ “Any member of the Judi-
ciary Committee who votes for
this impeachment is very much
a hypocrite. There is a great
deal of evidence that each and
i every member, including Mr.
Butler, is just as guilty or more

so of wrongdoing in misuse of /»as already lasted too long and
power than Mr. Nixon.” /has done tremendous damage

“The evidence of many to the functioning of vital inter-
crimes is overwhelming. Now ests to our country. To have
is the time for Congress to impeachment and the subse-
ac t.” quent trial in the Senate would

Some said they’re against take time that we cannot afford
impeachment because of the to give. The government is not
turmoil they thought it would functioning. Let’s get on with
bring. Said one caller: the solution of our problen^

“The trauma of Watergate and get Watergate behind us %

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24 THE DAILY ADVANCE, Lynchburg, Vd., Mon., July 29, 1974

CVPDC awarded
$20,000 grant

The federal Urban Mass
Transportation Administratio n
has awarded a $20.000 technical
study grant to the Central Vir-
ginia Plann i ng Dist rict Com-
mission, . V

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Inounced last^we^ "hy^STxth
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Caldwell Butler, will help fund

, planni n g activitie s jfor ttifi .

cities of

tox, Campbell and Bedford
^ counties.

~ Federal funds will permit
development of procedures for
annually updating the
Lynchburg area short-range
Transit Development Program
to insure continued area
eligibility for federal capital
grants. The grant also will pro-
vide funds for preparing a re-
gional Special Transportation
Needs Plan and updating the
district’s Unified Transporta-
tion Work Program.

Commission Chairman Wil-
liam F. Overacre said, “A re-
cently completed short-range
transit study, sponsored by the

City of Lynchburg for the
Lynchburg area, has produced
a five-year Transit Develop-
ment Program which must be
updated annually. Funds from
the grant will allow this updat-
ing process necessary to insure
continued eligibility for feder-
al money for transit facilities.”

The Special Transportation
Needs Plan will be prepared to
aid the elderly, handicapped
and low-income residents
throughout the planning dis-
trict. A study will be made to
determine transportation
needs of these area residents
for getting to locations where
social services are adminis-
tered.

All transportation planning
activities anticipated by the
agencies and jurisdictions
within the planning district
will be incorporated in the up-
dating of the Unified Trans-
portation Work Program. This
program consolidates all pro-
posed planning projects in the
region for a fiscal year and
serves as a basic structure for
more detailed planning.

AP Photo

Rep. Caldwell Butler on 'Face the Nation'

By MELVILLE CARICO
Times Political Writer

Rep. M. Caldwell Butler said on CBS’s
“Face The Nation” Sunday he does not
think President Nixon should resign al-
though he believes now the House is going
to impeach him.

The President, he said, is entitled to
trial in the Senate.

“In the absence of an admission of to-
tal guilt and an acceptance of responsibili-
ty which would be the equivalent of a plea
of guilty I think it would be a serious mis-
take for the President to resign,” Butler
said in reply to a question.

Butler was invited to appear with Rep.
Ray Thornton, D-Ark, on the network pro-
gram after he disclosed Thursday— the
first day of the televised hearings— he
would be one of the Republicans voting for
impeachment.

By broadcast time Sunday the usually
witty congressman had regained his com-
posure after being upset Saturday when,
with five other members of his party, he
voted for the first article of impeachment.

“Just say I don’t want to talk about it
for a little while,” Butler told reporters
who sought him out after the historic vote
with the strain showing on the faces of
members of the House Judiciary Commit-
tee for all to see on TV.

The crackle was back in Butler’s an-
swers by air time.

Asked if he had been subject to pres-
sure from other Republicans in the House
or the GOP back home, Butler replied:

“Maybe I’m not smart enough to rec-
ognize that kind of pressure ... I don’t
feel there has been any pressure at all but
like I say we’ve been so busy since we
started the debates that maybe they are
laying in wait for me and I haven’t heard
about them.”

Butler was asked-ahout the reaction
back home.

He said he has disappointed some,
particularly Republicans, but overall it
appears support is running “slightly
ahead” of criticism.

But, he added, there has been enough
“negative reaction” for him to take it se-
riously.

Butler said, in effect, that if his vote
for impeachment should cost him his
House seat it will just have to be that way.

“Certainly the job isn’t that good that
you want to compromise yourself on what
you think is right,” he declared.

Butler said he thinks there should be
only two articles of impeachment— the
obstruction of justicle article which the
Judiciary Committee approved Saturday
with its history-making 27-11 vote and an-
other on abuse of power.

These two, Butler claimed, would put
the dase squarely before the Senate.

Butler said he could not support an
article charging the President with failure
to cooperate with the committee by not
honoring its subpoenas for the White
House tapes.

“I cannot accept the theory a man can

be impeached for failing to cooperate in
his own impeachment . . . Butler rea-
soned.

Butler said he believes, as of now, the
House will vote to impeach the Presi-
dent— not on the strength of the commit-
tees bi-partisan vote, but what he said is
an informal poll that has been taken
among members.

Butler confirmed newspaper reports
that at night Mrs. Butler read him the
Woodward-Bernstein book, “All The
King’s Men,” but rejected implications it
may have influenced his vote.

He said while the “style” of the two
Washington Post reporters in their ac-
counl aT WaTei^ate^was mt^eTnTHe^Tng
than that of Committee Counsel John Doar
but “there were not a lot of surprises in
it.”

Butler said he reached his decision
about five days ago because of the “ac-
cumulative effect” of all the information
the committee got in its closed door hear-
ings.

Much of the realization that he would
have to vote for impeachment came in a
^partisan caucus of some committee
members who, Butler said, “was a small
group, troubled, undecided . . .

“We were trying to do what we
thought was the best for the country and it
was apparent to me I was dealing with
people I had real regard for— we all had
the same problems.”

“It’s not one of those things you can
just walk away from,” Butler quoted one
participant as remarking as the evidence
justifying impeachment, as the congress-
man put it, “accumulated.

Butler said the experience of live TV
and radio coverage of the Judiciary Com-
mittee debates convinces him that com-
mittee work in the future should be open to
this kind of coverage.

Members, he said, “started off self-
conscious” but after the initial reaction
“the impact of TV was less than I antici-
pated.’’ This, he said, caused him to
change his mind about TV coverage.

But, the congressman said, he has
“real reservations” about live TV cover-
age of the impeachment debates in the
House. One reason, he confessed, is that
the committee has just 38 members; the
House 435, raising the question of
“whether we would ever finish.”

Butler Says Impeachment Vote Will
Hurt Re-election Bid — Page 13

/ r\/ U-,

Butler wants

Senate

Hep. M. Caldwell Butler yes-
terday agreed with a colleague
on the House Judiciary Com-
mittee that President Nixon
shouldn't resign.

Nixon, said Butler and Rep.
Ray Thornton of Arkansas, is
deserving of a trial by the Sen-
ate.

Butler is among six of the 17
Republicans on the House Judi-
ciary Committee who have
said President Nixon ought to
be impeached and removed
from office. Thornton joined
the 20 other Democrats on the
committee in saying the same
thing. Thornton and Butler
were among those who voted
on Saturday for one article of
impeachment.

The two congressmen ap-
peared yesterday on the CBS-
TV show. “Face the Nation.”
Butler said he's not sure
whether his action hurt him in
his 6th District area. Political
pundits generally agree that it
hasn't.

President’s Men,” the book
about Watergate and related
scandals.

Butler said the style of the
book was a vast improvement
over that of John Doar, House
Judiciary Committee counsel,
but actually it didn’t offer up
many surprises.

Butler and Thornton added
little new to what they’ve al-
ready said. Butler said, as he
has before, that there ought to
be two articles of impeach-
ment. Two would, he said, put
the case squarely before the
Senate.

Butler said he couldn’t sup-
port a charge that the Presi-
dent hasn't cooperated with the
committee.

“I cannot accept the theory a
man can be impeached for fail-
ing to cooperate in his own im-
peachment,” Butler said.

Butler said there has been
enough “negative reaction” to
cause him some worry.

Butler managed to get a little
humor into the otherwise staid
j nationally telecast program.

He was asked about a report
that his wife, Junie, read to
nightly from ‘‘All the

Butler knows his vote n
plated himonhot s 1&T

WASmiMGTON (AP)— Virginia’s man 01
* , . H ° us ® Judiciary Committee, Rep. M
£f' d 'y el ! Butler, knows he’s also on the ho

eood lTi h ? b ° f , a con § ressm an isn’t s<
good that he d play politics with Presidentia
impeachment just to save his skin

Butler said in an interview here Sunday hi
realizes his decision to support articles of im
peachment against Richard M. Nixon hasn’t sel

District many ° f hiS supporters in the 6th

But, said Butler, holding his ground “The
significance of the vote far outweighs the polit-
icai future of me or anybody else in Congress."
.. , h ® freshman Republican also told a na-

tional television audience later on the CBS
interview program, “Face the Nation,” that he
believes the full House will impeach the Presi
dent by a margin similar to that on the commit-

artirtp*nf 1 ' V ° ted l 7 ' 11 late Saturda y on the first
article of impeachment.

bers^/thl* o ne ‘ third ,? f the Republican mem-
he said ^ H ° USe W1 support impeachment,

Butler was one of six of the committee:* 17

Republicans who joined all 21 Democrats in
voting for Article I of the impeachment.

Butler admitted his decision to vote for
impeachment could be harmful, politically, and
suggested the politically expedient thing would
have been for him to oppose Nixon’s impeach-
ment.

He reiterated that his decision was based
on the facts that have come to light before the
House committee and his conscience.

It clearly has offended some of our strong
party people to whom I owe my job,” he said

On another matter, Butler, a lawyer de-
fended the committee’s handling of the d’raft-
lng of the first article of impeachment, the one
that charges the President generally with ob-
struction of justice.

Butler said, “I feel very strongly that we
have a strong statement on the case, which is
what the function of an article of impeachment
is.. .to tell the President of the United States the
things with which he is charged.”

Butler said the committee set out general
areas of evidence in the article charging Nixon
with obstruction of justice.

Saunders Wants
Congress Salaries Cut 10%

Here’s another potential shock for
U.S. House members stunned by Virgin-
ian Republican ML Caldwell’s Butler’s
denunciation of President Nixon during
last week impeachment debates before
the House Judiciary Committee.

Warren D. Saunders, Butler’s Ameri-
can party challenger in the fall elec-
tions, says one of his first actions as a
house member would be an attempt to
cut every congressman’s salary by 10
percent as an example aimed at balanc-
ing the federal budget and controlling
inflation.

Oh yes, and the President’ salary, too.
Meanwhile, Fairfax Democratic Com-
mittee Chairman Harold O. Miller, a
former House campaigner himself, is
going around advising Democratic con-

Virginia

gressional contenders to zero in on the
economy and let Watergate take care of
itself as a campaign issue.

“Even in this relatively secure eco-
nomic area,” Miller said recently, “the
tight money situation, the shortage of
materials, and the high price of housing
are having an impact on the economy.”
Adds Miller: “I think that is probably
the number one issue. I’m advising the
candidates to speak on that — someone
else can take care of Watergate.”

Harris and Parris: Democratic chal-
lenger Herbert E. Harris II of Virgin-
ia’s nearby 8th District will have Rep.
John A. Brademas, D-Ind., chief deputy
majority House whip, as a special guest
for a Harris campaign fund-raiser
Wednesday night, 7 to 9 o’clock, at the
home of Gerald Halpin, 7979 East Boule-
vard Drive in Fairfax County’s Mt. Ver-
non area.

Harris hopes to raise some $90,000 for

his campaign this fall against Republi-
can freshman Stanford E. Parris in the
8th. Admission Wednesday: $25 per cou-
ple.

Republican Parris, in the meantime,
will hold the first in his projected series
of open town meetings with his constitu-
ents tomorrow evening at the Manassas
Community Center, 9312 Peabody St.
Time: 7:30 p.m. Later, Parris will meet
with the public in Springfield, Alexan-
dria and Woodbridge. Admission: Rree.

Fairfax County Young Republican
Chairman Glenn Mosher isn’t happy
about the rumble of elephants he hears
stumbling around in the impeachment
jungle. In a press release last week, the
20-year-old Mosher said, “It is about
time that the summertime soldiers and
sunshine patriots in Congress stand up
in outrage at the way the Judiciary
Committee is performing its most seri-
ous task.

“Not only is it disgusting to see the
committee treating the impe achm ent in-
quiry as a partisan political matter, but
also it is disturbing to view the rest of

Congress covering in the cloakrooms

afraid to stand up for what is fair and
against what is not. We all deserve bet-
ter representation than this.”

Although the 28 members of his club
— all less than 20 years old — have not
voted on how they feel about impeach-
ment, Mosher said he was certain that
all but two or three members agreed
with him. Events of the last few days
have only strengthened Mosher’s con-
viction. He said the declaration for im-
peachment by Rep. Lawrence Hogan,
R-Md., had simply “reinforced my opin-
ion that everyone is doing what they
think is popular.”

Contributors this week are staff
writers Allan Frank and Mary Marga-
ret Green.

....

Monday, July 29, 1974

IMPEACHMENT

Continued from Page A-l

THE CHARGE against
the President, Wiggins
argued, is a “subjective”
one that lends weight to
Vice President Gerald
Ford’s now famous state-
ment that an impeachable
offense is anything that a
majority of the House says
it is at any particular time.

By approving article II,
Wiggins said, “we are in ef-
fect saying that a President
may be impeached in the fu-
ture if a Congress expresses
no confidence in his conduct
— not because he has vio-
lated the law, but because
Congress declares his con-
duct abusive in its own sub-
jective judgment.”

Danielson replied that the
offenses charged in Article
II are “uniquely presiden-
tial” since they are based
on the language of the con-

stitutional oath and duties
of the chief executive.

“These are indeed high
crimes and misdemean-
ors,” Danielson said. “They
are offenses against the
very structure of the state
— against our system of
government.

“Is not the violation of the
solemn oath of office an im-
peachable offense? Other-
wise, why would the Consti-
tution include the oath of of-
fice,” Danielson asked
rhetorically.

WIGGINS attempted to
challenge the article on a
parliamentary “point of
order” contending the
charges failed to state an
impeachable offense.

But Rodino ruled that the
definition of an impeach-
able offense “is a matter
for this committee, the

House itself and ultimately
the Senate to decide.”

REBUFFED by the
chairman, Wiggins then
tried to amend the article to
limit the charges to those
offenses which were direct-
ed “personally and through
his subordinates and agents
acting with his knowledge
or pursuant to his instruc-
tions.”

Wiggins argued that the
committee was attempting
to charge Nixon for the ac-
tions of his subordinates,
“seeking to impeach the
President vicariously,” he
argued.

His effort was resisted by
advocates of the impeach-
ment article. Danielson said
the Wiggins amendment
would “unreasonably and
unrealistically restrict the
proof required” to prove
the charges.

McCLORY SAID the
abuse of power charge
“really gets to the crux of
our responsibility — it di-
rects our attention to the
President’s constitutional
oath and to his constitution-
al responsibility.”

The proposed second arti- .
cle, he said, focuses on
Nixon’s alleged failure to
fulfill his constitutional
duty to “take care” that the
laws of the United States
are faithfully executed.

McClory said today bar-
ring unforeseen develop-
ments, “I definitely will
offer a separate article”
based on the President’s
defiance of committee dub-
poenas.

A number of members
who favor impeachment on
obstruction of justice and
abuse of power charges,
however, have expressed
reservations about a sepa-
rate contempt charge.

Some feel it would be
preferable to make no
specific mention of Nixon’s i
defiance of the committee

but to allow each member
to draw, if he chooses, an
adverse inference from
Nixon’s conduct.

Others argue the Presi-
dent was asserting what he
believed to be a constitu-
tionally based concept of
executive privilege in refus-
ing to comply with commit-
tee demands for evidence
and should not be punished
for doing so in the absence
of a court test of his claim
as it pertains to a congres-
sional impeachment in-
quiry.

Other members have indi-
cated that they also may
seek committee approval
for additional charges
against the President. Rep.
Edward Mezvinsky, D-
Iowa, has prepared an arti-
cle accusing Nixon with im-
peachable wrong-doing in
the handling of his personal
finances, and several other
members are known to be
considering a charge
against the President relat-
ing to the secret 1969-70
bombing of Cambodia.

A recommendation to the
full House that Nixon be im-
peached and bound over for
trial in the Senate was as-
sured Saturday when the
committee, in the first such
action in 106 years, ap-
proved the impeachment
article accusing the Presi-
dent of obstruction of justice
in the Watergate investiga-
tion.

A draft of the article be-
fore the committee today
charges that the President
misused his office in
authorizing or permitting
unlawful wiretaps, creating
the secret White House
“plumbers” unit, passed on
Justice Department infor-
mation to presidential aides
under criminal investiga-
tion and making political
use of the FBI, the CIA and
the Internal Revenue Serv-
ice.

Meanwhile, the deputy
Democratic leader in the
Senate, Robert C. Byrd of
West Virginia, predicted
yesterday that the full
House would approve a

resolution of impeachment
against the President.

“There is not an absolute
certitude,” he said, “but I
would have to think” that
the House would vote to im-
peach, “based on recent
developments.”

Bvrd. known as one of the
Senate’s best vote-counters,
cited as those “develop-
ments” the recent convic-
tion of presidential aide
John D. Ehrlichman, the*
Supreme Court decision last
week ordering Nixon to
surrender White House tape
recordings and the biparti-
san vote of the Judiciary
Committee in approving the
obstruction of justice arti-
cle against the President.

Byrd, interviewed on
ABC’s “Issues and An-
swers,” said he did not be-
lieve, however, that there
are sufficient votes in the
Senate at the present time
to convict the President.

Byrd’s assessment of the
Presidential support in the
House was buttressed yes-
terday by Rep. M. Caldwell j

Butler of Virginia, one of
sfiTRepublicans on the Ju-
diciary Committee who
voted for the first impeach-
ment article.

Interviewed on CBS’
“Face the Nation,” Butler
said he believes that “the
division that we have on the
committee is at least what
the division will be among
the Republicans in the
House, but I have no exper-
tise in this regard.”

If Butler’s prediction is
correct, it would mean that
Nixon would lose about one
third of the 187 Republicans
in the House, virtually j
assuring the President’s im-
peachment. J

SIX

-IWE PAILY REVIEW. CLIFTON FORGE.

Yeutter to join panel
at farm conference

Sixth District

Representative M.
Caldwell Butler announced
today that Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture,
Clayton Yeutter, will join
the panel for his farm
conference, Aug. 5, at
McCormick Farm.

Yeutter heads the
International Affairs and
Commodity Programs
Division of the
Department of
Agriculture, and is
responsible for the areas
of domestic farm
programs and for export
markets for American
farm products. The panel
will begin at 10 a.m. and
will be followed by a free
barbecue luncheon at noon.
“Yeutter is a lawyer, an
economist, and a farmer,
and he has extensive
background in domestic -
farm affairs. He knows all
aspects of agriculture, and
we are extremely lucky to
have him”, Butler said.

Yeutter has a law
degree and a PhD in
agricultural economics
from the University of
Nebraska, and has
operated a 2500-acre crop
farming and cattle ranch
in central Nebraska. He
has served as both
administrator and
Assistant Secretary for the
U.S.D.A.’s Consumer and
Marketing Service.

Yeutter joins Rep
William Wampler, ranking
minority member of the
House Agriculture
Committee as guest
panelists for the
conference. Rep. J.
Kenneth Robinson and
Butler, cosponsors of the
event, will complete the
four-member panel. Butler
commented, “With
Congressman Wampler
and Assistant Secretary
Yeutter we have two of
the most knowledgeable
men in Washington for
agricultural policy.
Accordingly, our format
this year will emphasize

the opportunity for
individual interchange
with the panelists. This
will be a learning
experience both for the
guests and for the
members of the panel.”

Also participating in the
conference as a resource
personnel will be
representatives of the Soil
Conversation Service,
Farmers Home
Administration, State
Department of Agriculture
and Commerce,

Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service,
Occupational Safety and
Health Administration and
V.P.I.’s Agriculture
Extension Service and the
Agriculture Experiment
Station. Each will be
available for individual
consultation and discussion.

THE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, V . Tuesday, July 30, 1974

Yeutter 7
Is Farm
Panelist

WASHINGTON, D. C. (Spe-
cial) — Sixth District Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler announced
today that Assitant Secretary of

join the panel for his farm
conference, Aug. 5 at the Mc-
Cormick Farm in Steeles
Tavera

Mr. Yeutter heads the In-

modity Programs Division of the
Department of Agriculture and
is responsible for the areas of
domestic farm programs and
for export markets for American
farm products. The panel will
begin at 10 a.m and will be
followed by a free barbecue
luncheon at 12 noon.

“Mr. Yeutter is a lawyer, an
economist, and a farmer, and he
has extensive background in
domestic farm affairs. He knows i
all aspects of agriculture, and
we are extremely lucky to have
him,” Mr. Butler said.

Mr. Yeutter joins Rep.
William Wampler, ranking
minority member of the House
Agriculture Committee as guest \
panelists for the conference.

Seventh District Rep. J. Kenneth

Robinson and Mr. Butler, co-
sponsors of the event, will
complete the four-member
panel.

Mr. Butler said, “Our format
this year will emphasize the
opportunity for individual in-
terchange with the panelists.
This will be a learning ex-
perience both for the guests and
for the members of the panel.”
Also participating in the
conference as a resource per-
sonnel will be representatives of
the Soil Conversation Service,
Farmers Home Administration,
State Department of Agriculture
and Commerce, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service, Occupational Safety
and Health Administration and
Virginia Tech’s Agriculture
Extension Service and the
Agriculture Experiment Station.
Each will be available for in-
dividual consultation and
discussion.

Agriculture Clayton Yeutter will

temational Affairs and Com-

Pl edges open mind ' t ,j jd

Butler mar oppose new charges

1 ---U Vv.a mail W2S

By JACK BETTS
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON-Roanoke
Congressman M. Caldwell But-
ler says he doesn’t plan to sup-
port any more articles of
impeachment that will be pres-
ented by the House Judiciary
Committee.

Butler, who yesterday cast
his second vote on articles to
impeach President Nixon, said
he is “presently inclined
against” voting for any other
articles.

Butler said, “I’m presently
inclined against them but I’ll
listen to the arguments.”

He said he was still thinking
about the matter of the Presi-
dent’s tax troubles, but added
“I haven’t thoroughly made up
my mind. Paying his taxes is
not really in the discharge of
the office of the presidency.
And the charges are not fully
substantiated.”

Butler also said he did not
plan to support the contempt of
Congress charge because he

did not believe it was proper to
impeach the president for
“failing to cooperate in his own
impeachment inquiry.”

He spoke rarely during the
long debate Monday morning,
afternoon and night. At one
point, he cosponsored an
amendment with Maine Repub-
lican William Cohen that made
one of the five abuse of power
charges more specific, and
that language was accepted
without debate.

Butler’s wife, June, attended

part of the day’s session after
helping him plow through the
cascade of letters, telegrams
and telephone messages that
have flowed into his office
since he announced last week
that he would vote for im-
peachment.

Although some of the mail
has been abusive and obscene,
much of it is in support of But-
ler’s position.

Several callers have offered
contributions to Butler’s re-
election campaign. But the

high point of the mail was di-
rected not to the congressman,
but to Mrs; Butler.

One letter, apparently was
prompted by reports that she
had read excerpts from the
book “All The President’s
Men,” by Washington Post in-
vestigative reporters Carl
Bernstein and Bob Woodward,
at bedtime.

Wrote Washington humor
columnist Art Buchwald,
“June— Where were you when I

The Republican representa-
tive last night voted with six
other Republicans and all 21
Democrats on the committee
to impeach the President on
charges that he failed to faith-
fully execute the laws cl the
United States and abused the
powers of the presidency.

Committee debate today,
was to center on several more
articles, including allegations
of presidential tax fraud, com-
tempt of Congress in failing to
comply with committee sub-
poenas and possibly charges
dealing with the Cambodia
bombing and the, ITT and milk
deals will be proposed.

Vol. 176, No. 30

THE RC

Committee

Approves

Article 2

WASHINGTON (AP)-Expanding its
formal accusations against President
Nixon, the House Judiciary Committee
adopted a second impeachment article
Monday night charging him with broad
misuse of federal agents and agencies.

The vote was 28 to 10, with seven Re-
publicans joining all 21 Democrats in ac-
cusing Nixon of ordering or condoning
wiretapping, private peeks at tax returns
and other activities “violating the consti-
tutional rights of citizens.”

The bipartisan majority was one vote,
greater than on Saturday night, when the
committee voted 27 to 11 a first article
recommending Nixon’s removal from of-
fice for obstructing justice in the Water-
gate cover-up.

The additional vote in support of the
second article cameTFbirr Rep. Robert
McClory of Illinois, second ranking Re-
publican on the committee.

The committee recessed immediately
after the vote until 10:30 a.m. EDT Tues-
day.

Butler Votes 'Aye'

By JACK BETTS
Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Sixth District Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler, R-Va., late
Wednesday night cast a vote for a sec-
ond article of impeachment against
President Richard M. Nixon.

Butler cast his vote, the second in
three days, at 11:22 p.m. as the clerk
polled the 38 members of the House
Judiciary Committee.

When it was over, the committee’s
pro impeachment majority had picked
up one .more Republican vote in Rep.
Rpbert McClory. R-Ill.

Saturday. Butler voted with five oth-
er Republicans in approving the first
article of impeachment against the
President in 106 years.

Butler indicated after the vote that
he did not plan to support any furthur
articles of impeachment.

When debate resumes this morning,
two more articles, one involving allega-
tions of presidential tax fraud and an-
other finding the President in contempt
I of Congress for failure to comply with
committee subpoenas, will be brought
up.

Butler said, “I’m presently inclined
against both, but I'll listen to the argu-
ments for them. I haven’t thoroughly
made up my mind on the tax fraud
charge because paying taxes is not
really in the discharge of the office of
the President and because the charge
has not been fully substantiated/’

Panel Votes 28-10
For Second Article

From Page 1

knew of the illegal activities of his subor-
dinates.

The first of a series of motions to drop
allegations was beaten 28 to 10 in a vote in-
dicating the second article might have
even more support than the first. Article
One was approved Saturday night on a
vote of 27 to 11.

Six Republicans joined all 21 Demo-
crats in the final vote on Saturday.

A similar number of Republicans,
though not necessarily the same ones,
were expected to vote for the second arti-
cle

' Again leading the fight in Nixon’s de-
fense was Rep. Charles Wiggins, R-Calif.,
who opened the debate by attempting to
have the entire article thrown out on a
point of order — that it did not directly
involve “impeachable” offenses. That
complaint was immediately rejected with-
out a formal vote. Then Wiggins offered
amendments aimed at narrowing the
charges.

By a vote of 28 to 9, the committee re-
jected Wiggins’ motion to include in the
specific allegations the words ‘‘acting
with his (Nixon’s) knowledge and pursu-
ant to his instructions” where they refer
to actions by presidential aides.

The impeachment bloc opposed the
proposed change on ground it could elimi-
nate actions which the President approved
after the fact even if he had no prior
knowledge.

One of the strongest statements in op-
position to the amendment came unex-
pectedly from Rep. Wiley Mayne, R-Iowa,
generally regarded as a hard-line member

of the outmanned group fighting impeach-

men \Vithout saying how he planned to vote
on the entire article, Mayne referred to at-
tempts to use the IRS for political purpos-
es, — one of the allegations in the article
— as “outrageous.”

“I think that not only does the Presi-
dent have a responsibility not to directly
approve such indefensible actions but he
has a responsibility not to ratify it after it
has occurred,” said Mayne.

A second amendment by Wiggins was
directed at an allegation that Nixon
“failed to take care that laws were faith-
fully executed ... concerning the unlawful
entry into the headquarters of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, and concern-
ing other matters.” Wiggins amendment,
which would have deleted the “other mat-
ters,” was defeated 24 to 14.

At the opening of the debate, Wiggins
raised a point of order on the ground the
proposed article “does not state an im-
peachable offense under the Constitu-
tion ”

Wiggins claimed that there was seri-
ous question whether noncriminal abuse of
presidential power meets the Constitu-
tion’s definition of impeachment as
“treason, bribery and high crimes and
misdemeanors.”

Rep. George Danielson, D-Calif., re-
sponded by saying that “the offenses
charged against the President in this arti-
cle are uniquely presidential offenses. No
one else can commit them.”

Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-
N.J., rejected Wiggins’ protest without a
vote. But as the debate continued, it was
clear that Wiggins had stated what would
be the oppositions main theme.

Staunton, \Va M Leader, Tuesday, July &B, 1974

Yebtter will

join farm panel

U.S. Rep. M. Caldwell Butler announced
today that an assistant secretary of
agriculture, Clayton Yeutter, will join the
panel for his farm conference Monday at
McCormick Farm.

Mr. Yeutter heads the International
Affairs and Commodity Programs
Division of the Department of Agriculture,
and is responsible for the areas of
domestic farm programs and for export
markets for American farm products. The
panel will begin at 10 a.m. and will be
followed by a free barbecue luncheon.

Mr. Yeutter is a lawyer, an economist
and a farmer, and he has extensive
background in domestic farm affairs. “He
knows all aspects of agriculture, and we
are extremely lucky to have him,” Rep.
Butler said.

Mr. Yeutter has a law degree and a PhD
in agricultural economics from the
University of Nebraska, and has operated
a 2,500-acre crop farming and cattle ranch
in central Nebraska. He has served as both
administrator and assistant secretary for
the USDA’s Consumer and Marketing
Service.

Mr. Yeutter joins Rep. William Wam-
pler, ranking minority member of the
House Agriculture Committee as guest
panelists for the conference. Rep. J.
Kenneth Robinson and Rep. Butler, co-
sponsors of the event, will complete the
four-member panel.

Also participating in the conference as a
resource personnel will be representatives
of the Soil Conservation Service, Farmers
Home Administration, State Department
of Agriculture and Commerce,
Agricultural Stabilization and Con-
servation Service, Occupational Safety
and Health Administration and VPI’s
Agricultural Extension Service and the
Agricultural Experiment Station.

Agriculture Official o' w 1
2 Will Join Farm Panel

Sixth District Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler has announced that
Assistant Secretary of Agricul-
ture Clayton Yeutter will join
the panel for his farm confer-
llence Monday at McCormick
; Farm near Steeles Tavern.

Yeutter heads the Interna-
tional Affairs and Commodity
Programs* Division of the De-
partment of Agriculture, and is
responsible for the areas of
domestic farm programs and
for export markets for Ameri-
can farm products.

“Yeutter is a lawyer, an
economist and a farmer and
has extensive background in
domestic farm affairs. He

Best Moves Up
To Big Board;

knows all aspects of agricul-
ture and we are extremely
lucky to have him,” Butler
said.

Yeutter, who operated a 2,-
500-acre crop farming and cat-
tle ranch in central Nebraska,
has a Ph.D. in agricultural eco-
nomics from the University of
Nebraska.

He has served as both admin-
istrator and assistant secre-
tary for the USDA’s consumer
and marketing service.

Yeutter joins Rep. William
Wampler, ranking minority
member of the House Agricul-
ture Committee, as guest pan-
elists for the conference. Rep.
J. Kenneth Robinson and But-
ler, cosponsors of the event,
will complete the four— mem-
ber panel.

j : ' '

it '7 -^o "7y

Bouquets and barbs

A BOUQUET to Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
for an attempt to close a loophole in a cam-
paign reform bill recently passed by the
House Administration Committee. Butler
failed in his attempt to limit direct and indi-
rect loans to candidates for campaign pur-
poses. The loophole would allow a candidate
to receive a loan when it is cosigned by oth-
er individuals. That easy alternative makes
hay of the bill’s prohibition on loans of more
than $1,000 to candidates. The Democrats on
the committee, who voted down the Butler
amendment to close the hole, thoroughly de-
serve A BARB.

an mkH

Agriculture

Aide Joins
Farm Panel

Sixth District Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler announced
that Assistant Secretary of Ag-
riculture, Clayton Yeutter, will »
join the panel for his farm -j
conference, Aug. 5 at Me-
Cormick Farm at Steele’s Tav- ^
ern.

Yeutter heads the Interna-
tional Affairs and Commodity ^
Programs Division of the De- q
partment of Agriculture, and
is responsible for the areas of ^
domestic farm programs and
for export markets for Ameri-
can farm products. The panel
will begin at 10 a.m. and will be
followed by a free barbecue
luncheon at noon.

Yeutter is a lawyer, an econ-
omist, and a farmer, and he
has extensive background in
domestic farm affairs.

Yeutter has a law degree
and a Ph.D. in agricuP oral eco-
nomics from the Un ^ersity of
Nebraska, a and has operated a
2,500-acre crop farr ing and cat-
tleranch in centr .1 Nebraska.

Yeutter joins Rep. William
Wampler, ranKing minority
member of the House
Agriculutural Committee as
guest panelists for the con-
ference. Rep. J. Kenneth Rob-
inson and Butler, cosponsors of
the event, will complete the
{ four-member panel.

Jhuoe/L

Joseph Kraft ^ j c

Impeachment: -The R epu blican

The morning after his slashing at-
tack on the impeachment inquiry by
the Judiciary Committee, the New Jer-
sey Republican, Charles Sandman,
rode on the subway with Lud Ashley, a
democratic congressman from Toledo.

■ “Pretty rough stuff,” Ashley mur-
[ mured. Sandman shrugged, and said:

“I was only trying to win over a couple
of votes on our side.”

That comment expresses exactly
what the struggle inside the Judiciary
committee has been all about. The
fight has been between Republicans,
and at issue is the future of the party.

Judging by the relatively wary reac-
r tion of Vice President Gerald Ford
and House Minority Leader John •

Rhodes, the Nixon wing of the party I
is not winning.

By all normal standards, the Repub-
lican interest is to unload Mr. Nixon 1
with dispatch. The party would then
be out from under the Watergate bur-
den. It could line up behind Mr. Fofd
a/id be in good position to win in 1976.

The more so as the party could claim
, that it had the strength to clean its 1
own house.

Republican congressmen who have
voted for impeachment in the Judici-
ary Committee have been advancing
precisely those arguments. Thus Torp
Railsbaek, the congressman from Illi-
nois who has led the Republicans for
impeachment in the committee, under-
lined the difference between the Presi-
dent and the party at a breakfast here,
the other day.

if The future of the Republican
Party,” he said, “doesn’t lie with Presi-
dent Nixon. The future belongs to Re-
r publicans in the Senate, the House,
and the state legislatures.”

Caldwell Butler, the Virginia Repub-
lican Who joined the impeachment
1 forces in the committee, put the argu-
ment in the debate itself. In his open-
ing statement he said:

“Watergate is our shame. These
things happened in the Republican ad-
; ministration while we had a Republi-
t can in the White House and every sin-
j; gle person convicted to date has one
[ way or the other owed allegiance to
the Republican Party ... It is we, not
' . the Democrats, who must demonstrate
that we are capable of enforcing the
high standards we would set for
them.”

To bar the way to that seductive ar-
gument, the President has only one
weapon. It is the weapon of fear— -the
threat that any Republican who de-
serts in this hour of need will be im-
paled on the glittering blade of retalia-
tion.

In that vein, hard-core Nixon sup-
porters around the country have been
mobilized. They are deluging Republi-
can members of the Congress with
mail and telegrams threatening to take
vengeance at the polls against Republi-
cans who abandon the President.

Similarly, the White House itself has
been quick to stigmatize the commit-

Realignment

tee and individual Republicans. Thus
when the direction of the committee
became clear, Ron Ziegler called it a
“kangaroo court.” When Congressman
Lawrence Hogan of Maryland became
the first Republican to announce
against the President, he drew wither-
ing fire from presidential counsellor
Dean Burch.

Inside the Judiciary Committee, the
Nixon loyalists have also been brand-
ishing the threat of retaliation. The
President’s hard core supporters —
Charles Wiggins of California, David
Dennis of Indiana, Del Latta of Ohio
and Mr. Sandman— have centered
their charge on the argument that the
Articles of Impeachment lack specifi-
city and a direct link to the President
himself.

That is a way of telling other Repub-
licans that they will have to v)te on a
vague indictment, thus exposing them-
selves to punishment from Republican
voters who need chapter and verse to
be convinced of the President’s culpa-
bility. As Mr. Wiggins asked
“Wouldn’t it be a damning indict-
ment, Mr. Chairman, if this committee,
if after all this time and all this
money, we were unable to state with
specificity what this case is all about?”
But the notable feature of the Nixon
loyalists is that they come from con-
servative-cum-W a 1 1 a c e i t e districts
where Republicans do not have to woo
the middle to win. Thus Mr. Lana won
by 73 per cent in his last race, and Mr.
Wiggins had 65 per cent of the vote.
Messers. Dennis and Sandnan also

won comfortably, and in them districts i
George Wallace took 12 per cent of the
vote in 1968.

Republicans obliged to win middle-
of-the-road votes, particularly thosd at
the head of the party, seem to be di-
vorcing themselves from the hard-core
Nixonites. Thus when House Minority
Leader John Rhodes advises the Presi-
dent to take his case to the public in a
television address, he is in effect
saying: “I can’t do it for you.” Vice
President Ford, while making noises
friendly tc the President, is cleaiTy not •
throwing his vast congressional pres-
tige into the battle. Mr. Ford plans to j
spend Aug. 8 through Aug. 19' — the
critical days of the House debate— in
California, Oregon, Washington state
and Hawaii.

By Sally Quinn

Shortly before chairman Peter
Kodino pounded the gavel to call
the House Judiciary Committee
hearing to order, reporters, pho-
tographers and assorted guests
were still milling around, cruising
up and down the first tier of con-
gressmen, “working the bar,” as
it is called in the business.

The committee room of the Ray-
burn Building, all mint green and
velvet draperies, took on the de-
meanor of an oriental bazaar, a
trading center or market place
where reporters busily worked
over the congressmen for new
tips, picking up a little here, a
little there, exchanging pleasant-
ries and bits of gossip.

P^ r haps the best day to watch
the working of the bar” was Sat-
urday, the day of the roll call vote
on the first article of impeach-
ment.

Art Buchwald came in after
lunch. He walked over to the end
of the Republican side of the tier
where Rep. Caldwell Butler (R-
Va.) was sitting.

Buchwald, obviously intrigued
with the new public stature But-
ler had attained, shook his hand.

. read your stuff,” said Butler,
impressed. “Are we on camera?”
he asked Buchwald, standing up.
Turn around and look. Maybe my

wife is watching TV.” He called
his son over from the audience.
Jimmy,” he said, “come over and
meet Art Buchwald.” And to Buch-
wald, “He reads you, too.” Buch-
wald signed an autograph for him.

> NBC’s John Chancellor slipped
in for a while to see what was go-
ing on. It was ABC’s day for the
pool coverage, so he had some
spare time. He was surrounded by
committee members who “just
wanted to shake his hand.”

Later Walter Flowers (D-Ala.)
boasted to a colleague, “I met an
anchorman today.”

A woman reporter remarked
that John Doar, the special coun-
sel, is now a bachelor and pre-
dicted he’ll be the next Henry Kis-
singer “eligibility wise” im town.
Buchwald wandered over to Doar
and jokingly told him that Ethel
Kennedy thinks he’s famous
enough now to play in the Ken-
nedy Tennis Tournament at For-
est Hills in August.

Autographing and celebrity
greeting was being traded at the
tiers almost as much as inside in-
formation.

Even Fish Bait Miller, the House
Doorkeeper, came in one day with
an enormous picture of the com-
mittee with an autograph of each

See HEARINGS, B3, Col. 1

the Bar 9

By Tom Allen— -The Washington Post

Crew and staff members of the
major networks outside the
House Judiciary Committee hear -
ing room,

foyf- ?/3o

HEARING , From B1

member. He was excited
as if he had gotten an auto-
gra;phed picture of the old
MGM crowd.

For most of the represent-
atives, it was a new experi-
ence., Until recently mem-
bers of the House with few
exceptions had been, you
might say, low profile figures
on the Washington scene. For
*pne thing, there are 435 of
j.them and most of them have
rarely been heard from.
Suddenly those on the Judi-
ciary Committee have been
catapulted to national prom-,
inenee.

To Washingtonians and
many members of the press
who cover the “stars” it is
as though they just crawled
from underneath a rock.

*£ The members of the press,
in many cases, are better
known than those they are
covering. And in some cases,
too, the people they are cov-
ering are suddenly promi-
nent only because they are
covering them.

So it all ends up with
strange, sort of symbiotic
overtones, especially when
the lines are so clearly
drawn, as they are in these
Judiciary Committee hear-
ings.

The way the session be-
gins each day is with the
members of the committee
arriving at the appointed
time, drifting in casually,
along with the press;

Those members, depend-
ing on whether they have
something prepared to say
for the cameras, either
/whisk in p.ast the reporters,

. stroll in to be caught by a
Reporter or sneak in one of
the side doors.

-S Once the scramble is over
ipr interviews and stand-up -
4 pers, the committee room
£* fills up with participants
'who mingle like boxers
:t shaking hands before a
light.

5' Working the bar seems
v more like a “stroking” exer-
cise than a profoundly effec-
tive method of news gather-
ing. Congressmen tell how
^tired they are, and the press
-sympathizes. The press
asks what will happen that
day, and the members toss
out bon mots designed for
media consumption.

' Wives and visitors sit off
to a corner, and less than 20
members of the general pub-
lic rotate every 15 minutes
or so.

There are no large crowds
or mobs, no pushing and
shoving, and surprisingly, al-
ways a few extra seats in
the press section.

Early in the hearings, the
members seemed stiff and
tense, unsure of how they
would fare in the face of
millions of Americans. They

Ray Scherer and John
Chancellor of NBC sit
with columnist Art Buch -
wald at Saturday’s hear-
ings, above ; microphones
in the hall outside the
hearing room, right, are
used for interviews; be-
low, a view of the press
gallery used by the
broadcast media .

Working of the Bar— Like a Bizarre Bazaar

By James K. W. Atherton- -The Washington Post

dressed up— stiff white

shirts, fitted suits, nice ties,
distinguished hair cuts. As
the days went on they re-
laxed, became comfortable
with their foies as possible
national heros and began
acting like old time
“statespersons.”

Members of the press and |
the guests learned to rattle i
off names, states and parties |
of each congressman, like j
they would their favorite
soap opera charaters, picked I
favorites and took bets on I
how each one would vote onl
each paragraph of each arti-|
cle of impeachment. Mur- 1
murs of annoyance or sur-|
prise would echo through!
the room if a congressman!
went the unexpected way.

Occasionally someone I
would make a joke to break
the tension and the laughter |
was relieved.

A few weeks ago a Wash-
ington journalist returned!
from a short trip to London. I
“How is everybody,” he was|
asked.

“You’ll find out soon I
enough,” he said. “They’re!
all planning to come over|
for the impeachment.”

It was said as though they I
were all planning to come!
over for the Mardi Gras or]
the Kentucky Derby, some
spectacle surrounded by a
mad round of festivities,
some fabulous social event |
requiring a special ward-
robe, a special performance j
to munch popcorn to, an- j
other media circus, com-
plete with hot dog stands
and impeachment T-shirts.

On the opening day of the I
Watergate hearings last
spring, and indeed,. through- 1
out the duration of those
hearings, there was a cer- 1
tain commercial atmos-
phere, as though some kind |
of hustle were going on.

The oral arguments at the I
Supreme Court several
weeks ago had the same
side-show atmosphere, cer- 1
tainly outside, though it was I
somewhat more contained r
than at the Watergate h£

ings.

Somehow, though, the im-
peachment hearings are not I
the same. There is an atmos-
phere of solemnity, of seri-
ousness among the members [
of the House Judiciary Com-
mittee and the members of I
the press that one senses im- >
mediately. There is, finally,
a sense that this time they’-
re not messing around.

There are, to be sure, a
few who sometimes grand- |
stand. Rep. Charles N. Sand-
man Jr. (R-N.J.), taking his
glasses on and off for effect,
waving papers about,
blustering; Rep. Delbert L.
Latta (R-Ohio) and Father
Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.)j
all seem to be aware that!
they are performing and!
Sandman even said, on Sat- 1
, urday, “Let’s not bore the f
American, people to death.”
But the committee seems
truly aware of the unhappi-
ness of its mission. The hu-
mor, in general, is low-key ]
and tasteful.

Rep. William Hungate (D-
Mo.), a humorist, at one |
point apologized for his oc-
casional amusing remarks, I
saying that he didnjt think a
sense of humor precluded a
I sense of responsibility.

“I found it better to have
a sense of humor than no
sense at all,” he said.

And it was with a sense of
humor that Rep. Lott with a
touch of chaerin remarked
to a member of the press

about his distinguished col-
league, the gentleman from
Virginia, “I told Caldwell
Butler that we’d been on
this committee so long that
even he was beginning to
look pretty.”

Judiciary Roll Calls

Amendment by Rep. Charles E. Wiggins to require proof
that President Nixon knew of or ordered conduct alleged
in Rep. William L. Hungate’s substitute Article II of the
impeachment resolution:

YES (9)

Hutchinson (R-Mich.)
Smith (R-N.Y.)
Sandman (R-N.J.)
Wiggins (R-Calif.)
Dennis (R-Ind.)
Froelich (R-Wis.)
Moorhead (R-Calif.)
Maraziti (R-jN.J.)
Latta (R-Ohio)

Lott (R-Miss.) did not

NO (28)

Donohue (D-Mass.)
Brooks (D-Tex.)
Kastenmeier (D-Wis.)
Edwards (D-Calif.)
Hungate (D-Mo.)

Conyers (D-Mich.)

Eilberg (D-Pa.)

Waldie (D-Calif.)

Flowers (D-Ala.)

Mann (D-S.C.)

Sarbanes (D-Md.)
Seiberling (D-Ohio)
Danielson (D-Calif.)
Drinan (D-Mass.)
vote.

Rangel (D-N.Y.)
Jordan (D-Tex.)
Thornton (D-Ark.)
Holtzman (D-N.Y.)
Owens (D-Utah)
Mezvinsky (D-lowa)
McClory (R-lll.)
Railsback (R-lll.)
Fish (R-N.Y.)
Mayne (R-lowa)
Hogan (R-Md.)
Butler (R-Va.)
Cohen (R-Maine)
Rodino (D-N.J.)

Amendment by Rep. Charles E. Wiggins to strike from
the fourth enumerated paragraph of the William L. Hungate
substitute Article II of the impeachment resolution the
phrase “and concerning other matters.”

YES (14)

Waldie (D)
Flowers (D)
Hutchinson (R)
Smith (R)
Sandman (R)
Railsback (R)
Wiggins (R)
Dennis (R)
Mayne (R)

Lott (R)
Froelich (R)
Moorhead (R)
Maraziti (R)
Latta (R)

NO (24)

Donohue CD)

Brooks (D)

Kastenmeier (D)
Edwards (D)

Hungate (D)

Conyers (D)

Eilberg (D) ,

Mann (D)

Sarbanes (D)

Seiberling (D)

Danielson (D)

Drinan (D)

Rangel (D)
Jordan (D)
Thornton (D)
Holtzman (D)
Owens (D)
Mezvins>ky (D)
McClory (R)
Fish (R)

Hogan (R)
Butler (R)
Cohen (R)
Rodino (D)

Rep. Charles E. Wiggins’ motion to strike the second
enumerated paragraph of Rep. William L. Hungate’s sub-
stitute Article II of the impeachment resolution:

YES (10)

Hutchinson (R)
Smith (R)

Sandman (R)
Wiggins (R)

Dennis (R)

Mayne (R)

Lott (R)

Moorhead (R)
Maraziti (R)

Latta (R)

fi J •' ■ \W.\ v'

Donohue (D)
Brooks (D)
Kastenmeier (D)
Edwards (D)
Hungate (D)
Conyers (D)
Eilberg (D)
Waldie (D)
Flowers (D)
Mann (D)
Sarbanes (D)
Seiberling (D)
Danielson (D)
Drinan CD)

NO (28)

Rangel (D)
Jordan (D)
Thornton (D)
Holtzman (D)
Owens (D)
Mezvinsky (D)
McClory (R)
Railsback (R)
Fish (R)

Hogan (R)
Butler

Gaps Open in Nixon Support

Among House Southerners

By Mary Russell
and David S. Broder

Washington Post Staff Writers

Important gaps opened
yesterday in Southern sup-
port for President Nixon’s
effort to beat impeachment
in the House of Representa-
tives.

A survey of key repre-
sentatives from that region
indicated that fewer than
half the 74 Southern Demo-
crats in the House may vote
with the President.

Meantime, a telephone
check of Midwest Republi-
can leaders — another base
of Mr. Nixon’s strength in
the House — indicated there
may no longer be any clear
advantage for Republican
congressmen from that re-

gion in voting with the Pres-
ident.

With most Northern Dem-
ocrats expected to favor im-
peachment, Mr. Nixon’s
chances of escaping a Sen-
ate trial lie in losing no
more than 40 of the other
261 House members — 187 of
them Republicans and 74
Southern Democrats.

Rep. L. Richardson Preyer
(D-N.C.), one of the more in-
fluential of the uncommit-
ted Southerners, said yester-
day that the Judiciary Com-
mittee staff and members
“have done a very careful
job of fitting the pieces to-
gether.”

Referring to the pro-im-
peachment votes of Judici-
ary Committee members
James R. Mann (D-S.C.) and

r luwers

Preyer said, “when people
like Mann and Flowers
come out for impeachment,
it will make it easier for
other members from my
area who might be inclined
to support impeachment.
Everyone knows they aren’t
secret liberals.”

Preyer, who said the tel-
vised Judiciary Committee
hearings have allowed mem-
bers to “argue the case with
constituents . . . overnight
and reach people we
couldn’t reach if we worked
all year at it,” predicted pro-
impeachment votes out of
the Georgia, North Carolina

See POLITICS, AI4, Col. I

The President’s support
among conservatives shoivs
signs of erosion. Page A14

toS XL 9 / J o

>rt ■<

,4 J

POLITICS, From A1

and South Carolina delega-
tions.

Rep. Gillis Long (D-La.),
also uncommitted, said votes
against the President would
likely come from his state,
from Georgia, and “possibly
even one from Mississippi.”

Long said the conduct of
the Judiciary Committee
had been “exemplary” and
“tends to shore up the confi-
dence of people that the
matter’s being handled
fairly.”

The President did pick up.
a formal pledge of support
from one of his staunchest

Dixie backers, Reip. G. V.
(Sonny) Montgomery (D-
Miss.), who said he found
“the evidence is not that
strong.”

Among the key uncommit-
ted Midwest Republicans,
Rep. John Erleniborn (R-Ill.)
said he wanted “to take a
close look at the criminal

charges,” perhaps even lis-
tening to the tapes himself.

The shifting sands of Mid-
west Republicanism were in-
dicated by R. L. (Dick) Her-
man, the Nebraska GOP na-
tional committeeman.

Although Sen. Carl
Curtis (R-Neb.) has been
among the President’s most
vocal defenders, Herman
said “it’s going to be ex-
tremely hard for any mem-
ber” of Nebraska’s all-Re-
publican congressional dele-
gation “to cast a vote either
way. They’re not only voting
on the President, they’re
voting on their own political
integrity. It’s a tough, tough
decision for all of them.”

Herman said the impact
of the televised hearings
was “not good from the
President’s standpoint and
was not good for politics.
People want the whole thing
over,” he said. “They want it
done with.”

Delbert L. Latta opposing it.

McGough, too, commented
that “people are so fed up
with the thing that I’d have
to say the televised hearings
didn’t have near the impact,
for or against the President,
I’d thought they would.”

“I don’t think the average
person saw quite as strong a
case against the President
as he might have expected,”
he said, “but it’s very dis-
turbing to anyone who’s
thinking at all.”

In Wisconsin, whose two
Judiciary Committee mem-
bers, Democrat Robert W.
Kastenmeier and Republican
Harold V. Froehlich,, both
support impeachment, Re-
publican National Commit-
teeman Ody J. Fish said,
“It’s very difficult to assess
politically which is the wiser
course” for the state’s four
Republican representatives.
“The wisest course is proba-
bly for them to search their
conscience and do what they
have to do.”

In Ohio, with 15 Republi-
can representatives, state
GOP chairman Kent B. Mc-
Gough said, “There is no po-
litical hay to be made
either way they go, and, in
general, our surveys show,
there’s no vote that’s free
from danger.”

The two Ohio members of
the Judiciary Committee are
r split, with Democrat John F.

Seiberling supporting . im-
^ peachment and Republican

Fish noted that in the
hearings “the support for
the President was based on
a legalistic argument as to
whether these are impeach-
able offenses, rather than
whether things occurred
that should or should not
have happened. I think the
majority of people in Wis-
consin believe the entire se-
quence of events to have
been a rather shabby ste-
wardship of the office of the
President.”

In praise of Southern strength

By Ernest

WASHINGTON — THE UNBROKEN consensus here is that
the televised impeachment proceedings have done more for the
image of the much maligned congressman than anything else
lately. From numbers on a score sheet, faceless politicians oper-
ating behind closed doors, they have become real to the public.
Real, struggling, worrying men.

Furgurson

unable to sleep lately, and of how “the people that I represent—
just as I do, and most Americans— want to support the Presi-
dent.” But, he said, “If the trust of the people in the word of the
man to whom they have given their highest honor is betrayed, if
the people cannot know that their President is candid and truthful
with them, then the very basis of government is undermined . .

. And among them, one group has distinguished itself most
historically.

Of all the country’s politicians, those most sneered at , else-
where in the national have been those from the South. Many
Americans do not know that the South produces both Christian
gentlemen and redneck louts, men who will sacrifice themselves
for principle and those who will laugh contemptuously at anyone
who does, good politicians and bad.

7 The good ones are often far above national average. If they
are aware of history at all, they know they are the heirs of Thom-
as Jefferson and James Madison.

True, the political-spiritual heritage of the South is in the
Democratic Party, and for the past 20 years most of the South has
started voting for Republican presidents.

But that does not mean that all of the region has forgotten;
indeed, some Republicans have maintained since Franklin
Roosevelt’s time that the Jeffersonian tradition has been aban-
doned by the Democrats, and some argue that one of its great
modem bearers is Richard M. Nixon himself. Mr. Nixon has been
saying so on his own behalf since the first time he drew 150,000
Atlantans to Five Points at rush hour, in a campaign 14 years
back.

So, in the 1972 presidential election, our current President
swept the South, including the 7th district of Alabama with 66 per
cent of the vote; the 4th district of Arkansas with 69 per cent; the
4th district of South Carolina with 80 per cent and the 6th of Vir-
ginia with 74 per cent.

Normally, that should be a heavy clue to how the congress-
men from each of those districts would vote if faced with judging
evidence against Mr. Walter Flowers of Alabama spoke of being

James Mann of South Carolina got 66 per cent of the vote in
his district last time* but Mr. Nixon got 80 per cent. Mann spoke
of how men in the past had died for our system of government,
yet wondered “if the people still do want their elected represen-
tatives to fulfill their oath to preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution . .

Ray Thornton of Arkansas, like Flowers and Mann a Demo-
crat, said he approached the question “as a matter of law and
because I have faith that the people of this country believe in a
system of law to which all men are subject . . . “

/ For Caldwell Butler of Virginia the decision may have been
/hardest of all. He is a Republican, a long-time Nixon follower, a
j freshman from a conservative district, and he came here two
years ago with just 55 per cent of the vote. All that had to weigh
on him. But so did the knowledge that he represents the very
Virginia that Jefferson, Madison and James Monroe called
home.

He agonized before he decided, but then he spoke strongly.
“If we fail to impeach, we have condoned and left unpunished a
course of conduct totally inconsistent with the reasonable expec-
tations of the American people ... My present inclination is to
support articles incorporating my view of the charges of obstruc-
tion of justice and abuse of power. But there is no joy in it for
\ me,” he said.

And back home in Roanoke and in Lynchburg, as in Tusca-
loosa and Bessemer, Pine Bluff and El Dorado, Greenville and
Spartanburg, thousands of people who had voted for both Mr. Nix-
on and these congressmen were furious. But if they thought hard
on it, even they could be proud at the same time. For the men
they chose were living up to a tradition too many other Ameri-
cans have forgotten.

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non- lawrence Hogan confers with Rep. M. Caldwell Butler. (Story on A-4.)

By William Greider'

Washington Post Staff Writer

Everybody kept calling it
an ordeal, the terrible
drama of impeachment that
the House Judiciary Com-
mittee staged for the nation
via television.

The otherwise peaceful
ulcer of Rep. Walter Flow-
ers of Alabama was offered
in evidence. Rep, William
Hungate of Missouri re-
sorted to sunglasses, his
weary eyes stung b£ the
glaring television 1 i g h t s.
Rep. William Cohen of
Maine had ear trouble,
which made it difficult to
hear the debate, a welcome
affliction at times. Every
committee member said,
over and again, how an-
guished they were.

But you know, down deep,
Mr. Chairman, they sort of
enjoyed it. For the House
of/ Representatives, an as-
sembly where personal
glamor is scorned, the im-
peachment hearings pro-
vided an institutional ego
trip. For the American pub-,
lie, it was a grand civics
lesson in how things work,
at the other end of Pennsyl-
vania Avenue.

Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan,
the Republican from Prince
George’s County, was pep-
pered with bitter remarks
from his conservative
friends last week when he
ann ounced for impeach-
ment. Now, he says, he is
getting cordial notes of con-
gratulation.

“O u r colleagues,” said
Hogan, beaming, “are say-
ing that we have enhanced
the prestige of the House.
Everybody’s used to seeing
those buffoons from the
Senate on TV. We’ve shown
that the House operates
with real dignity.”

R en. M. C aldwell. Butl er,
a hitherto St^e-TTn^wn fresh-'
man from southwest Virgin-

Gets Ha Fe'Took at Hill

ia, stepped through the lob-
by doors off the House flooL
“Here he comes ” an elder
colleague proclaimed, With a
touch of the needle,, “star of
stage, screen and television.”
At the end of “the ordeal,
the 38 committee members
were exchanging autographs
with each other, collected as
keepsakes for their grand-
children, no doubt. “E Pluri-
bus Unum,” as the banner
on their committee room
wall proclaims. From many,
there was one awesome mo-
ment of' history. U

For the American audi-
ence, the civics lesson Was
just like 'the dries they teach
ip high sghool, partly genu-
ine and partly hokum. Con-
gress, let it be said, does
hot, usually do business with

Commentary

such humid rhetoric about
the Founding 'Fathers. Nor
do the 435 representatives al-
ways stay in their seats so
obediently. The minority, in
usual circumstances, is not
so long winded; the major-
ity usually shuts it up.

Still, if people were watch-
ing, they saw a rare glimpse
of a legislative committee
at work, tedious and care-
ful, proceeding through the
words which, v line by line,
section by section, added up
to an impeachment charge
against the President. They
spoke in quaint phrases:

;■ “I thank the gentleman
for his valuable remarks.”
“Reserving- the right to ob-
ject, Mr/ Chairman, and I
will not object.”

“I yield, 45 , seconds to the
gentleman from New York.”
Those antique expressions
of courtesy still lubricate
the legislative process: -They
are necessary grace notes, in
a game that is supposed to
produce collective judgment
out of bitter differences.

Above all, with rare
lapses/ the Judiciary Com-
mittee maintained its civil-
ity before the cameras.

Indeed, once they were
past that initial trauma of
voting the first article of im-
peachment on Saturday
night, the committee mem-
bers settled comfortably
into the routine of voting a
second and a\ third one. It
was the normalcy of the
proceedings, despite the
florid rhetoric, that may be
remembered best by history,
the orderly way a collection
of such different folks pro-
ceeded to do the awesome
deed.

Parliamentary gamesman-
ship, a staple in the House
of Representatives, ate up a
lot of time without changing
the outcome in any signifi-
cant way. Even some mem-
bers got dizzy when a Sie-
berling amendment and a
Me Glory amendment and a
Wiggins amendment were
stacked 'up on the Hungate
substitute to the Donohue
resolution.

Chairman Peter W. Ro-
dino Jr., who presided with
a magisterial gavel, was a
lot more benign than your
average House committee
chairman. He hardly said a
word for himself, beyond
the opening pieties. He al-
lowed members of both par-
ties to dispute on how they
should proceed and ac-
cepted their collective deci-
sions in good humor.

“There is one hour and 20
minutes remaining,” Con-
gressman Flowers asserted
at one crossroads. “That is
80 minutes, is it not? That
would be 40 minutes to a
side. I realize this is the Ju-
diciary Committee, and we
don’t deal with these num-
bers very often.”

Such small jokes are com-
mon in congressional dis-
course. Congressman Hun-

gate, who represents fMatf
Twain’s old homeTiistrict i<
Missouri, offered comic r!
lief of a higher order.

“As I hear the argument^
Hungate told his fellow la\!
yers, “I think I know noi
why there are not lawsuit
in heaven. The other sidi
has all the good lawyers.”

Those personal glimpse
were educational, too. In
tween the dramatic m*
ments, different character
performed on screen, peopl.
who lacked the majesty of
presidential entrance o
even the glitter of a hand
some senator.

Hutchinson, the ranking
blank on the Republican
side. Barbara Jordan, 1
beefy woman with a void
made for Shakespeare. Hunjl
gate’s cracker barrel. Coi)
yers’ Mr. Cool. Railback*
nasal earnestness. CharljS
the Sandman, tossing grit it
everybody’s eyes, Harok
Donohue, whose lullabi
could put anyone to sleep.

James Mann, the slow
draw marksman from Soutl
Carolina. Drinan, the bald
ful priest, not the hot-eyei
radical people 1 though!
Trent Lott, the Jaycee iron
Dixie. Dennis and Wiggim
and Mayne, granite face!
and razor arguments. Jo!
Maraziti, Jersey’s version o
“a good ole boy.” Elizabetl
Holtzman, cold steel fron
Brooklyn.

What can you make d
them? They were an expred
sive collection of America!
voices, homely and hand
some, comic and vain an!
tedious, serious and agoii
ized and occasionally elc.
quent. Yet collectively the)
are powerful politician^
powerful enough to toppfe t
President, anyway. It reallj
is E Pluribus Unum — th!
branch of government thal
operates without ruffles and
flourishes. I* V, v j Q J 7 /

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Panel Approves Article on Defiance

IMPEACH, From AI

will contain bills of particulars to back
up the first two articles.

Supporters of the article on im-
peachment dealing with Mr. Nixon’s
refusal to obey committee subpoenas
argued that if presidential defiance
were not made an offense, impeach-
ment would become an empty provi-
sion of the Constitution. They claimed
that future Presidents could 'refuse to
turn over any information to impeach-
ment inquiries.

Opponents contended that the
charge standing alone did not rise to
the level of seriousness required of im-
peachable offenses, especially since
the President had claimed what at the
time he could have believed to be a
constitutional right to refuse informa-
tion and the committee had refused to
go to court for a decision. Both sides
drew on last week’s Supreme Court de-
cision in the tapes case, which held
that executive privilege, on which the
President relied, does exist but is not
absolute.

Some on both sides argued that the
defiance charge should more properly
be made one count in the obstruction
of justice or abuse of power .articles
previously adopted. An attempt to
shift it into one of those substantive
articles may be made when the House
votes on impeachment next month.

: Rep. Tom Railsback (R-Ill.), who had
voted for the first two articles, vigor-
ously opposed the third as “political
oyerfeiil .” He warned Democratic sup-
porters they could weaken their case
if the House by trying to push through
an article not solidly based. Railsback
recalled that the committee had re-
ft^ed to seek a full House citation of
contempt against the President or to
go to court to seek enforcement of its
subpoenas.

“Watch what happens to your fragile
bipartisan coalition” of members who
believed -there were grounds for the
two previously adopted articles on
Watergate crimes and violation of citi-
zens’ rights, said Railsback. He added,
however, that this did not lessen his
support for the first two articles.

When the vote came, the 28-to-iO ma-
jority-consisting of all 21 Democrats
and seven Republicans— which had
adopted the second article Monday

slipped to 21 to 17 as two Southern
Democrats— Walter Flowers of Ala-
bama and James R. Mann of South
Carolina — voted against, and only two
Republicans — Robert McClory of Illi-
nois and Lawrence J. Hogan of Mary-
land — voted for it. Hogan was the only
Republican member to vote for all
three adopted articles.

McClory sponsored the defiance arti-
cle. He noted that the Constitution
vests “sole” power over impeachment
in the House, but contended that if the
President has the right to “determine
the extent to which the inquiry is car-
ried on, we don’t have sole power.” He
quoted a rule of law that “a person
cannot be the judge of his own cause.”
Rep Charles E. Wiggins (R-Calif.)
opposed the amendment, contending
that since the committee had found
enough “clear and convincing” evi-
dence to recommend impeachment in
two articles, it could not now turn
around and recommend impeachment
for failure to provide evidence. “You
can’t have your cake and eat it, too ”
said Wiggins.

Rep. Wayne Owens (Utah) said the

committee “must say to future Presi-
dents that impeachment will be auto-
matic if the President uses his unique
power to stonewall. He is the only per-
son in the United States who can re-
fuse to honor a congressional sub-
poena because he is the commander in
chief and the head of the executive
branch and we haven’t the physical
ability to overcome his defiance.”

Rep. Harold V. Froehlich (R-Wis.),
who had voted for the first two articles
but opposed the third, called the sub-
poenas issue a “classic confrontation”
between two branches of government
which should be settled by the courts. ’
The committee had refused to seek
court enforcement of its subpoenas on
grounds that this would require dele-
gating to the courts some of the im-
peachment power which the Constitu-
tion placed solely in the House.

Rep. Ray Thornton (D-Ark.) offered
an amendment, adopted 24 to 14, de-
signed to make clear that presidential
defiance of- a congressional subpoena
would be an impeachable offense only
in an impeachment inquiry, not in re-
sponse to a committee drafting general
legislation.

Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wis.)
responded to Wiggins’ contention that

the committee appeared to have plenty
of evidence by saying that other im-
peachment articles on the milk, and In-
ternational Telephone & Telegraph
Corp. matters might have succeeded
had Mr. Nixon turned over suppoenaed
tapes.

Rep. Don Edwards (D-Calif.) argued
that if f be committee failed to approve
the article on presidential defiance,
“we will diminish if not destrqy the
only safety valve in the Constitution to
protect ourselves against a President
who so misbehaves that he poses a
threat to the country.” In a parliamen-
tary system, new elections can be
called when the government loses a
vote of confidence, but in the United
States a President serves at least four
years unless impeached.

But Rep. David W. Dennis (R-Ind.)
argued that the committee was in ef-
fect saying to the President: If you
don’t agree with our view of the Con-
stitution we are going to impeach you.
“The President believed he had a con-
stitutional right of executive privilege
to withhold” the material, said Dennis.

Rep. M. Caldwell Butler (R-Va.), who
f supported: the first two articles, op-
posed the third. “Would this article
standing alone constitute impeachable
conduct?” asked Butler. “I think not.”

“We don’t need this article,” said
Butler. “It serves no useful purpose.”
He added that it offended his sense of
fair play because the committee had
not exhausted other means, through
the courts or a House contempt cita-
tion, to enforce its subpoenas.

Flowers, who had agonized his way
to supporting the first two articles,
joined Butler for the same reasons.

The committee’s subpoenes had been
approved by wide margins, up to 37 to
1. The only member to vote against all
of them was Rep. Edward Hutchinson
(R-Mich.), the committee’s senior Re-
publican. who felt they were a futile
gesture because they could not be en-
forced. ,

Just as the President cannot order
the House to do anything,” said Hutch-
inson yesterday, “so I also think the
House cannot order the President to
do anything.”

. B , U J sponsors of the article con-
tended that the President cannot rely
on the separation of powers doctrine
to justify his non-compliance and that
.he impeachment provision is an ex
ception to this doctrine.

, * V

Hutchinson also said he had aban-
doned a position taken eafly in the im-
peachment inquiry when he said that’
“the doctrine of executive privilege
must fall” in an impeachment inquiry.
Hutchinson said he had changed his ’
mind after the Supreme Court last
week recognized that some privilege
does exist.

The proposed article on the Cambo-
dia bombing was doomed from the
start, but its authors insisted on mak-
ing a record that in their view the
President had violated the Constitu-
tion by concealing the B-52 raids from
Congress and the American public.

The impeachment inquiry staff had
published an inch-thick memorandum
on the bombing but had not made any
judgment on Mr. Nixon’s role, some
senior Democrats who voted for im-
peachment on other articles had hoped
to keep it from coming up for debate.

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), sponr
sor of the article, said it would- serve-
n °tice to other Presidents that Con-
gress has the right to declare war.
‘Many people have forgotten who has
- the power to declare war in 1974 in the
United States,” he said.

The bombing of Cambodia was or-,
dered by President Nixon in early 1969,
a nd was not formally reported to Con-
gress until 1973.

The Conyers article, specified that
Mr. Nixon had violated his constitu-
tional oath by concealing the raids, not
by ordering them in the first place,
and by giving Congress false informa-,
Ron on the nature and scope of the
bombing.

Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-N.Y.) as-
sertd that the President had not only

concealed the bombing but misled the
. public -by insisting in public state-
ments that the neutrality of Cambodia
was not- being violated.

But opponents insisted that Con-
gress had to share blame for not acting
early to end the bombing. They pro-
vided statements from military leaders
that key officials of both the House
and (Senate had been privately in-
formed of the bombing.

Republicans also observed that Pres-
ident Johnson had acted secretly in be-
ginning, escalation of the war in Viet-
nam before Mr. Nixon came to office.
“How many articles of impeachment
were, filed against President Johnson
for his part?” asked Flowers. “This is a
bad rap on President Nixon.” He ac-
idly told proponents, “You don’t have
any corner on conscience on this mat-
ter and my conscience requires that I
vote against it.”

One Republican, Rep. Harry P.

/ Smith (N.Y.), had indicated last week
that he might be prepared to vote for
an impeachment article dealing with
Cambodia on grounds that the public
and Congress had been deceived.

But vesterday,. Smith voted against
Conyers* resolution, contending that
“too: many aspects are not. clear” and
c 6 m p 1 a j nin g . t h ai; the committee had
hot gohb liito the issue deeply enough.
■%The 4bal vote opposing the article
• was 26 : tb : -f2: :

The committee wound up last night
with frequently bitter two-hour debate
in prime television time on an article
that Mr. Nixon should be impeached
because he willfully attempted to
evade the payment of a portion of his
federal income taxes from 1969 to 1972.

The article also alleged that Mr.

oenm

Nixon violated his oath of office by re-
ceiving unconstitutional emoluments
specifically in the form of improve
ments to his private estates in Califor
nia and Florida and travel for his fam
ily.

The tax charge centered on Mr. Nix
on’s attempt to claim a $576,000 chart
table deduction on his ; 1969 taxes fol
donating his vice presidential paper!
to the National Archives. It has beei
shown that the paper deeding the giJ
was signed after the federal law allow
ing such deductions had expired. >

Rep. Edward Mezvinsky (D-Iowa)
who sponsored the article, said the tai
charge was an impeachable offensi
even though it did not involve an off I
cial act. Mr. Nixon benefited from hit
official office because the illegal de
duction would have left Mr. Nixot
open to a tax-evasion count if he ha*
been a private citizen.

“He took advantage of the pres:,
dency to avoid paying the proper
taxes,” Mezvinsky said. “It’is not jus5
the Treasury that’s poorer, but thi
whole system of self-government.”

The fault cannot be traced solely ty
Mr. Nixon’s aides and tax lawyer, Mei
vinsky said, because there is evidence
that the President paid close attention
to his personal finances. “And remem
ber, he was 'on the bottom line,” hi
added.

But Wiggins contended that Mr. Nix
on’s role in the transaction was mini
mal. The final decision, he said, cam!
in a 85-minute meeting in April, 1973
when the President was told by his ta^i
and personal lawyers that t fie* dedud
tion was proper.

“That’s how finely this web of fraui
is spun,” Wiggins said sarcastically.

^crapkw&K .lu\<j *31 " cr fj, W *M I ^

WHEN I ANNOUNCED irt the last
election to one of triy fellow conserva-
tives that in addition to my support for
our very able President, Mr. Nixon, I
ttould vote for Mr. Caldwell Butler, he
stated that Mr. Butler was a phony con-
servative and that time Would show it,
and it has. . t 4

Mr. Butler states he lias accepted the
President’s support and favors and ad-
mits he is a fine President but he has
been one of his worst enemies by his
Words and actions; mainly by saying “I
like the President but” thus damning
With faint praise.

Now he has managed to talk out of both
sides of his mouth and work his Way
around to join the liberal elements Who
are now swarming around him telling
him what a good conservative he is.

I should like to advise my fellow con-
servatives to consider not voting at all
rather than vote for Mr. Butler. We do
not have much choice. '

Lexington

J.j. SEBASTIAN, M.D.

Favors Nixon

Decision

I NOTICE a great deal of publicity as
“Butler Held Role of Nixon Backer for
Many Years.” Of course, Rep. Butler
was a Nixon backer when it was popular .
in this area to do so. When the Nixon v
band was playing and the crowds cheer-
ing, Rep. Butler was beating his chest
and marching right along, but when tile
going gets rough and the cheers have i
stopped, and the bands are playing for ;
the opposition, Rep. Butler yells “I’m
for impeachment!”

Any good lawyer (and Rep. Butler is a
good one) can prepare a case for or
against impeaching almost any presi-
dent, and I am reasonably sure it would
depend on his popularity at the nioment
as to how much support it Would get, and
almost any good attorney could prepare
a one-sided statement to present to the
public as his excuse for doing so.

f I’M SURE irt these impeachment hear-
ings' Mr. Butler acted according to his
convictions, but I disagree with his as-
sumption that President Nixort is guilty
; of an impeachable offense. Indeed, he is
the only President since I started voting
I have felt had the good of the country
paramount in his actions and has consis-
tently fought its enemies. Unfortunately
he has had more enemies at home than t
j abroad.

!, As I Watch the impeachment proceed-
ings on TV, i am struck by the Presi-
dent’s opponents who want to hurry the
proceedings. This is the most solemn oc-
casion any of us, hopefully, will ever wit-
t ness. It deserves long ahd careful
deliberation and rebuttal. If 1 remember
correctly, the infamous “Chicago Sev-
en’s” trial lasted four years. The Angela
Davises and Daniel Ellsbergs are freed
on technicalities. Why such a hurry to
convict a President who has ended a
war, brought the prisoners home,
stopped the draft, reversed the tide of
permissiveness and tried to eliminate
some wasteful and even harmful federal
programs?

At afi hour when all politicians are sus-
pect, one cannot help but believe that
Rep. Butler surely must have thought, in
this election year, that he would gain
more votes than he Would lose by stating
that he would vote for impeachment.

I remember the Roosevelt days and
the awesdme power he possessed and -
wielded relentlessly.

> v ■ i

There Were no tapes and no talk of im-
peachment, yet What Went on in the big <
cities (political cbrtiiptidn) and In Some
states (West Virginia, New Jersey, Illi- ,
nois, etc.) would make Watergate ahd
Nixon’s power politics look like a Boy
Scout caper. I know, because I was in-
ivolved in West Virginia politics at the
t time!

Roanoke

RUFUS HURT

Martinsville

MRS. ROY BURGESS

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Case

Roll Call | i

A Cv

WASHINGTON (AP) - Here is the
26 to 12 roll call vote by which the
House Judiciary Committee rejected a
proposed impeachment article citing
President Nixon for his tax troubles.
For the amendment: 12.

Democrats for: 12.

Brooks, Tex.; Kastenmeier. Wis.;
Edwards, Calif.; Conyeff'^Mich.;
Eilberg, Pa.

/ Deiberling, Ohio; Danielson,
Calif.; Rangel, N.Y.; Jordan, Tex.;
Holtzman, N.Y. /

Mezvinsky, Iowa; Rodino, N.J.
Democrats Against: 9.

Donohue, Mass.; Hungate, Mo.;
Waldie, Calif.; Flowers, Ala.; Mann,
S.C.

Sarbanes, Md.; Drinan, Mass.;
Thornton, Ark.; Owens, Utah.
Republicans against: 17.

Hutchinson, Mich.; McClory, 111.;
Smith, N.Y.; Sandman, N.J.; Rail-
sback, 111.

Wiggins, Calif.; Dennis, Ind.; Fish,
N.Y.; Mayne, Iowa; Hogan, Md.

Butler. Ya.: Cohen. Maine; Lott,
Miss.; Froehlich, Wis.; Moorhead,
Calif.

Maraziti, N.J.; Latta, Ohio.

'libpoenas

Roll Call

WASHINGTON (AP) - Here is the
21-17 roll call vote by which the House
Judiciary Committee approved an arti-
cle of impeachment charging Presi-
dent Nixon with violating his oath of
office by refusing to give the commit-
tee subpoenaed evidence for its im-
peachment investigation.

For the article: 21
Democrats for: 19
Donohue, Mass.; Brooks, Tex.;
Kastenmeier, Wis.; Edwards, Calif.;
Hungate, Mo.

Conyers, Mich.; Eilberg, Pa.;
Waldie, Calif.; Sarbanes, Md.; Seiberl-
ing, Ohio.

Danielson, Calif.; Drinan, Mass.;
Rangel, N.Y. Jordan, Tex.; Thornton,
Ark

Holtzman, N.Y.; Owens, Utah;
Mezvinsky, Iowa; Rodino, N.J.
Republicans for: 2.

McClory, 111.; Hogan, Md.

Against the article: 17
Democrats Against: 2.

Flowers, Ala.; Mann, S.C.
Republicans Against: 15.
Hutchinson, Mich.; Smith, N.Y.;
Sandman, N.J.; Railsback, 111.; Wig-
gins, Calif.

Dennis, Ind.; Fish, N.Y.; Mayne,
Iowa; Butler, J ^u^Cohen, Maine.

Lott,~ MissV; Froehlich, Wis.;
Moorhead, Calif.; Maraziti, N.J. Latta,
Ohio.

Canr^odia

Roll Call

WASHINGTON (AP) - Here is the
26-12 roll call vote by which the House
Judiciary Committee rejected an arti-
cle of impeachment asking that Presi-
dent Nixon be impeached for the 1969
secret bombing of Cambodia.

For the article: 12

Democrats for: 12

Brooks, Tex.; Kastenmeier, Wis.;
Edwards, Calif.; Hungate, Mo.; Con-
yers, Mich.

Waldie, Calif.; Drinan, Mass.;
Rangel, N.Y.; Jordan, Tex.; Holtzman,
N.Y.

Owens, Utah; Mezvinsky, Iowa.

Democrats against: 9.

Donohue, Mass.; Eilberg, Pa.;
Flowers, Ala.; Mann, S.C.; Sarbanes, \
Md.; Seiberling, Ohio; Danielson, ;

Calif.; Thornton, Ark.; Rodino, N.J.

Republicans against: 17 fc

Hutchinson, Mich.; McClory, 111.;

I Smith, N.Y.; Sandman, N.J.; Rail-

i sback, 111.

Wiggins, Calif.; Dennis, Ind.; Fish,
N.Y.; Mayne, Iowa; Hogan, Md.

r JLuller, Va.; Cohen, Maine; Lott,
MissT; Froehlich, Wis.; Moorhead,

Calif. ' j

Maraziti, N.J.; Latta, Ohio. /

PRESUMED INNOCENT

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V ie ws On Impeachment
Reiterated By Godwin

By GEORGE W. WILBUR

RICHMOND (AP) - Gov.
Mills Godwin said Tuesday
that his views on the possible
impeachment of President Nix-
on havq not been altered by
House Judiciary Committee de-
liberations in Washington.

He told a news conference
that the committee was ex-
ercising its judgement on the
basis of evidence not available
to the general public and “I’m
not criticizing them for their
actions.”

At the same time, however,
Godwin reiterated an assertion ,
he has made frequently in the
past:

“I think the President is en-
titled to the same presumption
of innocence as any other indi-
vidual,” he said.

The governor said the same
principle applied to former
Treasury Secretary John Con-
nally, indicted Monday by the
Watergate grand jury on
charges of bribery.

Throughout his comments
to numerous questions on the
impeachment controversy,
Godwin adroitly avoided tak-
ing a partisan stance and em-
phasized repeatedly that
Nixon’s guilt or innocence
should not be prejudged by
anyone.

He conceded, however, that
events of recent weeks “have
certainly not been on the plus
side as far as the President is
concerned.”

where attempts are being
made to form police unions.

—He is “optimistic” that fed-
eral Secretary of Transporta-
tion Claude S. Brinegar will
expedite approval for construc-
tiokf an unfinished segment
of^pterstate 66 in Arlington
County.

—There is “no conflict of
which I’m aware” between Vir-
ginia Tech officials and the
Council of Higher Education
on a proposal to build a school
for veterinary medicine on the

Blacksburg campus.

On this issue, Godwin said
he still favors a regional ap-
proach to etablishing such a
school but believes Tech would
offer the best solution to solv-
ing the need for new veter-
inarians in the northern tier of
states belonging to the South-
ern Region Education Board.

At the same time, he em-
phasized that Virginia’s tight
revenue situation makes it un-
likely that any capital outlay
funds for such a school can be

provided in the foreseeable
future.

—There has been no final
decision on where to build a
new reception and diagnostic
center or what to do with state
property in the Green Springs
section of Louisa County
originally earmarked for the
facility.

-He still feels that higher
salaries for correctional of-
ficers and new facilities should
be priority goals in Virginia’s
correctional reform program.

Opinions Differ

The governor said there re-
mains considerable difference
of opinion between “many
learned lawyers and judges”
on whether the Constitution
restricts the grounds for im-
peachment to criminal acts.

But he said he personally
felt that the articles of im-
peachment would have to be
based on “more than inadver-
tent oversights” and would cer-
tainly have to* include actions
touching upon criminal mat-
ters.

3ER 5

r Page 9> News-Gazette, Lexington, Virginia July 31, 197 4

Farm Meet To
Bring Officials

Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Clayton Yeutter
will be a guest panelist for the
farm conference to be held
Monday at McCormick Farm
at Steeles Tavern.

Sixth District Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler announced
yesterday that Yeutter will
participate. The conference
is being sponsored by Butler
and 7th District Rep. Kenneth
Robinson.

The panel discussion will
begin at 10 a.m. and will be
followed by a free barbecue
luncheon at noon.

“Mr. Yeutter is a lawyer,
an economist and a farmer,
and he has extensive
background in domestic farm
affairs,” Butler said. “He
knows all aspects of
agriculture, and we are
extremely lucky to have
him.”

Yeutter heads the In-
ternational Affairs and
Commodity Programs
Division of the Department of
Agriculture and is respon-
sible for the areas of
domestic farm programs and
for export markets for
American farm products.

He received a law degree
and Ph. D. in agricultural
economics from the
University of Nebraska. He
has served as both ad-
ministrator and assistant
secretary for the Department
of Agriculture’s consumer
and marketing service?

Yeutter joins Rep. William
Wampler, ranking minority
member of the House
Agriculture Committee as
guest panelist for the con-
ference. Robinson and Butler
will complete the panel.

Also participating in the
conference as resource
personnel will be

representatives of the Soil
Conservation Service,
Farmers Home Ad-

ministration, State Depart-
ment of Agriculture and
Commerce, Agricultural
Stabilization and Con-

servation Service, Oc-
cupational Safety and Health
Administration and V.P.I.’s
Agriculture Extension
Service and the Agriculture
Experiment Station.

Each will be available for
individual consultation and
discussion, Butler said.

Hogan Reports
Decision Led to
'Personal Abuse'

By Martha Angle and
Shirley Elder

Star-News Staff Writers

Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan,
R-Md., has appealed to
other House Republicans to
study the evidence carefully
before condemning him and
other GOP members of the
Judiciary Committee for
supporting impeachment of
President Nixon.

In a letter yesterday to all
House Republicans, Hogan
said he has been “subjected
to a great deal of personal
abuse” from some of his
congressional colleagues,
political workers and even
personal friends since last
week, when he announced
his intention to vote for im-
peachment.

In the letter Hogan said:
“To my fellow Republicans
who have asked, ‘How can
you vote to impeach a
Republican president?’, I
ask them in turn, ‘How can
I vote to excuse the wrong-
doing of a Republican presi-
dent?’ ”

HOGAN, a candidate for

d iKafn o 1

opponent if I was going to
drop out. I told him he’d
better go ahead and give it
to her — that she was going
to need it,” Hogan said last
night.

The Maryland congress-
man said he has not seen
Zion since last Wednesday
and does not know whether
the Indiana Republican con-
tributed to Miss Gore’s
campaign.

Hogan said there has
been “not the slightest ran-
cor” among Republicans on
the Judiciary Committee,
despite the split which saw
7 of the 17 vote to impeach
the President.

The other six, who agreed
with that observation, were
Reps. Tom Railsback of Illi-
nois, Robert McClory of Illi-
nois, William S. Cohen of
Maine, M. Caldwell Butle r
of Virginia" Harold V.
Froehlich of Wisconsin, and
Hamilton Fish Jr. of New
York.

NOR HAVE THESE GOP
members encountered hos-

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! iS tot President Nixoni
"^Peachment and
th» u and removal from office ”

his I Jn'^ JU t di( i ary Commi tt^

with a d ,^ r ‘ historic in qairy
"Wart resolution to
06 sent to the House.

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' ♦J he ! hird im Peachment ar-
tide relating to the subpoenas'
was approved Tuesday bv a

narrow 21-17 vote.

The three articles of im-
peachment charge Nixon with
nigh crimes and mis-
demeanors” by: miS ^

—Obstructing justice in cov-
ering up the Watergate affair,

Igs on

the break-in of Democratic na-
jonal headquarters June 17
1972, once described by a White
spokesman as just a
third-rate burglary.’’

-—Abusing his powers through

SpA-asix

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-Refusing to comply with
committee subpoenas for 147

‘7-r ded conve rsations
and other material sought as
evidence by the inquiry. ^

feS 0 ! w 3S '^Peaehable of-
tenses before the committee

S Trtn inqUiry were P r °-
articles recommending

mp^chrnem for concealinf

the bombing of Cambodia from

fraud^hv 3n l, Perpetrat ing tax
traud by underpaying his in

r& Bothwered —

The ommittee’s recommen
dations must first face the for
mahty of passing through the
House Rules Committee before
making their way to the House
floor.

A majority vote is needed in
the House to impeach the Pres-
ident. The Senate then would
conduct a trial, in which a two-
thirds majority would be

needed to convict and remove
Nixon from office.

The House committee’s pro-
ceedings ended with a rap from
the gavel of Chairman Peter W.
Rodino Jr. and his ruling that
“This concludes the work of the
committee.”

As he left the comniittee
room, Rep. Charles E. Wig-
gins, R-Calif., Nixon’s leading
defender during the six days of
debate and voting on the
impeachment articles said:
“At the moment, I would have
to say the odds are that the
House would pass them.”

The final day of the com-
mittee’s deliberations saw a
break-down in the bipartisan
coalition that adopted the first
two articles by votes of 27 to 11
and 28 to 10. The committee
has 21 Democrats and 17 Re-
publicans, all lawyers.

Although the second-ranking
Republican, Rep. Robert

t '#nur

McClory, R-Ill., offered the ar-
ticle dealing with subpoenas, it
won the support of only one
other Republican, Rep. Law-
rence Hogan of Maryland. Ho-
gan was the only Republican to
vote for all three articles that
were adopted.

In urging adoption of Article
III, McClory said Nixon’s refus-
al to comply with eight com-
mittee subpoenas for 147 taped
conversations was an act of
“stonewalling” that threatened
the impeachment process itself.

But other Republicans, al-
though they had supported the
issuing of the subpoenas, said
Nixon’s failure to comply with
them was not a serious enough
offense to warrant impeach-
ment by itself.

'’'Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, R- <
Va., a backer of the first two

See PROBERS, Pg. 2, Col. 1 .

Probers end hearings;
action by House next

From Page 1

articles, said Article III offend-
ed his sense of fair play.

“The adoption of Articles I
and II will have placed the is-
sue of whether the President
should be removed before the
Senate,’’ he said. “We don’t!
need any more articles.” /

Some Democrats agreed, no-
tably Reps. Walter Flowers, D-
Ala., and James R. Mann, D-
S.C., who voted against Article
III, and after the vote Rodino
held a caucus of Democratic
members to see if an agree-
ment could be reached to call a
halt. It could not. /

Since the inquiry began last
winter different members have
staked out different areas of in-
terest, and the secret bombing
of Cambodia and Nixon’s un-
derpayment of his income taxes
had a solid nucleus of support
among the Democrats as pos-
sible impeachable offenses.

Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-
Mich., who offered the Cam-
bodian bombing article, said
concealment of the bombing
from Congress and the Ameri-

can people “presents in-
disputable evidence of impeach-
able conduct.”

The debate over the article
produced melancholy echoes of
the debate over the Vietnam
War, with most Republicans
pointing out that Nixon inher-
ited it from former President
Lyndon B. Johnson.

“You want to throw him out
because he ended the war,”
said Rep. Charles W. Sandman
Jr., R-N.J. “Anybody else
would get a medal, but you
want to impeach him.”

Rep. Delbert Latta, R-Ohio,
said “the mothers and wives of
servicemen who are alive today
because of the action President
Nixon took would ask us not to
vote impeachment because of
an act that saved the lives of
their loved ones.”

Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-
N.Y., said it was not the bomb-
ing itself, but the concealing of
it from Congress and the fal-
sifying of official records that
warranted impeachment.

All 12 votes for the article

were cast by Democrats. Nine
other Democrats, led by Ro-
dino, joined the 17 Republicans
in defeating it.

Rep. Edward Mezvinsky, D-
Iowa, and Rep. Jack Brooks, D-
Tex., led the effort to add an
article covering Nixon’s taxes
and the use of government
funds to improve his private
property at San Clemente and
Key Biscayne to the impeach-
ment resolution.

Mezvinsky said both criminal
wrongdoing and abuse of presi-
dential powers were involved in
the backdating of a deed to
make valid a gift of pre-presi-
dential papers, for which Nixon
claimed a $576,000 income tax
deduction.

After an investigation, the In-
ternal Revenue Service dis-
allowed the deduction and bil-
led Nixon for $432,787 in back
•taxes.

“The President has set us a
very sorry example,” said Rep.
Wiley Mayne, R-Iowa. “Even if
it was technically legal, it was
highly improper to claim such

a huge deduction for his per-
sonal papers. But much as I de-
plore it, the question is, did he
commit fraud?”

Mayne said he did not, but
only followed the advice of tax
experts.

Latta said he could find the
President guilty of “gross neg-
ligence” for not going over his
tax returns more carefully, but
that no finding of fraud could
be sustained.

The long inquiry began offi-
cially last October when im-
peachment resolutions were as-
signed to the committee. It
really got going for the mem-
bers last May 9 when the staff
began presenting the evidence
it had gathered.

It was 11:07 when Rodino
rapped his gavel to end the in-
quiry.

The committee report is sup-
posed to be ready by next
Wednesday, at which time Ro-
dino probably will request a
meeting of the Rules Com-
mittee to set the terms for the
House debate.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House
Judiciary Commmittee formally con-
cluded its epic impeachment inquiry
Tuesday night by thrice urging “in the
name ... of all the people” that Richard
M. Nixon be stripped of the presidency
for high crime and other misconduct.

In the final hours the committee
voted a third impeachment article for
Nixon’s defiance of its subpoenas. It
rejected charges based on his personal
finances and the secret bombing of
Cambodia.

“This concludes the work of the
committee,” intoned Chairman Peter
W. Rodino, D-N.J., after the final vote
less than ^an hour before midnight.

Thus, automatically and without a
final symbolic vote, the panel of 38
lawyers affirmed a covering resolution
as the vehicle for action by the House
- and possibly the Senate - on three
articles charging the Republican ex-
ecutive with “high crimes and misde-
meanors.” To wit:

—Obstructing justice in covering
up the Watergate affair, a political
scandal born two years ago when Re-
publican agents burglarized and
bugged Democratic national head-
quarters.

-Misusing federal agents and
agencies in broad-scale violation of
citizens’ rights through wire-tapping
tax investigations and other activities.

—Refusing to comply with eight
committee subpoenas for 147 tape-re-
corded conversations and other mate-
rial sought as evidence for the im-
peachment inquiry.

The end of the committee’s six
days of nationally televised delibera-
tions seemed almost anti-climactic af-
ter the high drama of the initial
crucial vote Saturday night on the
tirst impeachment article.

The committee’s umbrella resolu-
tion urged that a majority of the 435-

member House, “in the name of itself
and of all the people of the United
Mates of America,” place Nixon on
trial in the Senate. There, a two-thirds
vote would convict and remove him
from office.

Only once before in America’s 198
years has a presidential impeachment
come this far - in 1868 when Andrew
Johnson was impeached by the House
but acquitted by the Senate.

Innocence Proclaimed

Nixon, who 20 months ago was re-
elected with the largest popular vote
in the nation’s history, has repeatedly
proclaimed he is innocent of an im-
peachable offense. And he has vowed
to fight to the bitter end of a Senate
trial if necessary.

There was no immediate comment
Tuesday night from Nixon or his
spokesmen.

But four hours before the
committee’s final vote, Treasury Sec-
retary William E. Simon emerged
from a meeting with Nixon declaring
“I’ve never seen the President in a
more positive, affirmative frame of
mind.”

The committee is expected to take

about a week to prepare the back-up
report accompanying the resolution
sent to the House, including dissenting
views of Nixon’s defenders.

Those presidential supporters
found themselves on the losing side of
the votes on the three articles: 27 to 11
on the first, 28 to 10 on the second and
21 to 17 on the third.

Bipartisan Edge

I* 16 size the ^Partisan edge on
the first two articles has caused even
some of Nixon’s staunchest defenders
to concede that House impeachment is
a strong possibility.

Republican Sen. John Tower of
ufu as ’ T f T 0r exam P le « said Tuesday the
White House view that the issue will
never reach a Senate trial “is a singu-
larly unenlightened one.”

House debate is expected to start
in mid-August and last about two
weeks. If impeachment is voted, con-
gressional leaders hope to begin a
Senate trial in late September.

The charge that Nixon evaded in-
come taxes and used federal funds to
improve his California and Florida
homes was defeated 26 to 12 after two
See Panel, A-8, Col. 2

Va., Wed., July 31, 1974

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hours of sometimes acrimonious de-
bate.

The committee rejected by the
same margin an attempt to cite the
secret bombing of Cambodia as a
fourth impeachment article. This de-
cision came hours after it had adopted
21 to 17 the third article on Nixon’s
defiance of the panel’s demands for
evidence.

In all, the panel had logged 35
hours, 46 minutes in the open phase of
its deliberations.

Rep. Edward Mezvinsky, D-Iowa,
offered an article charging the Presi-
dent “knowingly and fraudulently
tailed to report certain income and
claimed deductions ... on his federal
income tax returns which were not
authorized by law.’’

Rep. Charles Sandman, R-N.J.,
argued there is absolutely no attempt
to defraud” in the President’s tax re-
turns. “You cannot be held for fraud if
you rely on the advice of an attorney
an< ^ that’s what Richard Nixon did.”

“I’m thoroughly convinced,” said
Mezvinsky “that the evidence justifies
— indeed it even demands — that the
President be called to account for the
matter of how he handled his federal
tax returns.”

Basis Of Article
The tax article was based primari-
ly on findings that because of im-

deducti °ns for the tax years
969 through. 1972, the President was
liable for $432,787 in back taxes and
penalties. Nixon subsequently agreed
to pay the amount.

In recommending Nixon’s removal
trom office, the committee voted 27 to
11 Saturday to accuse Nixon of ob-
structing justice in the Watergate cov-
erup and decided 28 to 10 Monday to
charge him with misusing federal
agencies.

“Prime Example”

The third article was submitted by
the committee’s second ranking Re-
publican, Rep. Robert McClory of Illi-
nois, who said Nixon’s defiance of
subpoenas for 147 taped conversations
was, “the prime example of stonewall-
ing.”

It was the only one of the impeach-
ment articles sponsored by a Re-
publican.

The Cambodia proposal marked
the first time all 17 Republicans voted
against an impeachment article.

Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr., R-NY
said “the fact is, we in the Congress
share responsibility” for keeping the
facts of the Cambodia bombing from
^the American people.

Rep. M. Caldwe ll Butler^ R-Va.,
noted that cong ressional leaders were ^
told abouTThen^o mbing put (JiTHnoT

All 17 of the Republicans opposed
the motion and were joined by nine of
the Democrats, including chairman
Peter W. Rodino Jr. The panel then
recessed for 90 minutes before enter-
ing what likely would be its final
session.

The Cambodia article was offered
by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and
charged Nixon “ordered and ratified
the concealment from the Congress of
the facts ... (of) the scope and nature of
American bombing operations in Cam-
bodia.”

Debate Limited

Time for debate was limited to 90
minutes and eight committee mem-
bers said they wanted ' to speak in
support of it while 12 Republicans and
southern Democrats sought time to
oppose it.

f Con y e rs said Nixon “unilaterally
took action against another soveriegn
nation then denied to us and the
American people that he had done so ”
Rep. Delbert L. Latta, R-Ohio, said
there were more than 500,000 American
troops m Southeast Asia and “I think
the American people, particularly the
mothers and wives of the men who are j

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of a spokesman for 8th District
Rep. Stanford E. Parris, a Re-
' publican, who said “the con-
, gressman is looking through
^the 39 volumes of evidence col-

- lected by the House Judiciary
Committee.

^ “He has consistently said he
will reach his decision solely
. on the basis of the evidence.”
A spokesman for 7th District
. Republican Rep. J. Kenneth

- Robinson, said Robinson “does
. not want to vote to impeach

the President. He is looking for
ways not to do it. But the com
gressman will not make up his

mind until he has'seen all the
evidence.”

Rep. Robert W. Daniel, R
4th, remains undecided on the
impeachment issue, according
to his spokesman.

The spokesman said Daniel
has issued a statement saying
he was sure Butler had
reached his decision as a mat-
ter of conscience based on the
facts but that “it is possible for
different people to see the
same set of facts different
ways.”

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An ai^icscflep. G. William
Whi'^fliurst, R-2nd, said
Whitehurst has “expressed dis-
may about many things which
went on in this adminis-
tration,” but wants to examine
all evidence before reaching a
conclusion.

A spokesman for Rep. David
E. Satterfield, D-3rd, said the
congressman “hasn’t made up
his mind and won’t until he
hears all the facts.”

Spokesmen for William C.
Wampler, R-9th; Joel T.
Broyhill, R-lOth; Thomas N.
Downing, D-lst and W. C.
“Dan” Daniel, D-5th, also said
they were undecided on the
impeachment question.

# Butler Speaks Strongly

Sixth District Congressman M. Caldwell Butler
voted Saturday in favor of the first article of im-
peachment against President Richard M. Nixon, and
on Monday voted in favor of, a second article of
impeachment.

Butler, in an opening statement Thursday, told
the House Judiciary Committee that “there are fright-
ening implications for the future of our country
if we do not impeach the President..."

Butler’s compete opening is printed below:

For years we Republicans have campaigned against
corruption and misconduct in the Administration
of the Government of the United States by the other
party.

And somehow or other we have found the cir-
cumstances to bring that issue before the American
people in every succeeding national campaign.

But Watfergate is our shame. Those things hap-
pened in the Republican Administration while we had a
Republican in the White House and every single person
convicted to date has one way or the other owed
allegiance to the Republican party.

We cannot indulge ourselves the luxury of patron-
izing or excusing the misconduct of our own people.
These things have happened in our house. And it
is our responsibility to do what we can to clear it up.

It is we, not the Democrats, who must demonstrate
that we are capable of enforcing the high standards

• we would set for them.

> The gentleman from California, Mr. Wiggins, in his
remarks of this morning reminds us once more
that we must measure the conduct of the President
against the standards imposed by law.

I would like to share with you for a moment
some observations I have with reference to these
standards.

The conduct which the American people are rea-
sonably entitled to expect of the President is spelled
out in part in our Constitution and part in our statutes.
And we are particularly grateful to our colleague
from New York, Congressman Fish, for his exposition
on the duties imposed upon the President by our
Constitution.

THE VINTON MESSENGER JULY 31, 1974

Vinton, Virginia p age 2

In Favor Of Impeachment

It is my judgment also that the standard of conduct
which the American people are reasonably entitled
to expect of their President is established in part
by experience and precedent. And this is one reason
why I am so convinced about what has been revealed
to us by our investigation.

It will be remembered that only a few hours ago
the gentleman from Iowa, Mr. Mayne, has argued
that we should not impeach because of comparable
misconduct in previous Administrations.

There are frightening implications for the future
of our country if we do not impeach the President,
because we will by this proceeding establish as a
matter of record a standard of conduct for the
President which will be for all time a matter of
public record.

If we fail to impeach, we have condoned and left
unpunished a course of conduct totally inconsistent
with the reasonable expectations of the American
people. We will have condoned and left unpunished a
Presidential course of conduct designed to interfere
with and obstruct the very process he has sworn to
uphold. And we will have condoned and left unpunished
an abuse of power totally without justification. ,

And we will have said to the American people
these misdeeds are inconsequential and unimportant.

The people of the United States are entitled to assume
that their President is telling the truth. The pattern
of misrepresentation and half-truths that emerges
from our investigation reveals a Presidential quality
cynically based on the premise that the truth itself
is negotiable.

Consider the case of Richard Kleindienst, nominee '
for the Attorney General of the United States. The 1
President had told him in unmistakable terms that -I
he was not to appeal the I.T.T. case. But before J
the Senate of the United States, Mr. Kleindienst ex-
plicitly denied any effort by the President to influence
him in this regard. And the President who had know-
ledge of this affirmed to the people of the United
States his continuing confidence in this man.

The record is replete with official Presidential
misrepresentations of non-involvement, and represen-
tations of investigations and reports never made if
indeed undertaken at all. There are two references
to a Dean report which we have not seen.

Consider the case of Daniel Schorr. In a moment
of euphoria on Air Force I, Presidential aides called
upon the FBI to investigate this Administration critic.
Upon revelation. Presidential aides fabricated and the
President affirmed that Schorr was being investigated
for Federal appointment.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Let me also observe that throughout the extensive
transcripts made available to us of intimate Presi-
dential conversation and discussions there is no real
evidence of regret for what has occurred or remorse
or resolutions to change and precious little reference
to or concern for constitutional responsibility, or
reflecti on upon the basic obligations of the office of
the President.

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last three articles

Rep. M. Caldwell Butler of
„ Roanoke, who has»said that he
feels President Nixon should be
impeached, declined to vote for
three additional articles of im-
peachment that were present-
ed yesterday.

Butler, a Republican who
represents the Sixth Congres-
sional District, and is a mem-
ber of the House Judiciary
Committee, said that he feels
the two articles already ap-
proved are sufficient.

Butler voted Saturday with
five other Republicans on the
committee to impeach the
president on charges of ob-
struction of justice in the Wa-
tergate coverup and one

finding that Nixon has abused
the powers of the presidency.

During debate yesterday,
Butler said that approving ad-
ditional articles of impeach-
ment ‘‘would extend this
proceeding unnecessarily. . .and
we don’t need the additional
article.”

He opposed one motion that
would ask for impeachment on
the grounds that the President
had usurped constitutional
powers in his decision to bomb
Cambodia during the Vietnam
war.

The motion was defeated
26 - 12 .

J^te ^st night, Butler joined
the committee majority in re-
fusing to support impeachment

of Nixon for alleged irregulari-
ties in his tax returns and mis-
use of public funds for
improvements to his Florida
and California homes.

He also a opposed an article
relating to the President’s re-
fusal to comply with subpoenas
of tapes in the Watergate case.

Butler said he is concerned
about this matter, but “to im-
peach a president for failure to
cooperate in his own impeach-
ment inquiry... in my opinion is
unfair. This article violates my
sense of fair play and I’m pre-
pared to vote against it.”

He said that he feels that
impeachment on these grounds
without exhausting other ave-
nues is “unwise.”

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7 -

Rep. Lawrence Hogan (left) and Rep. Caldwell Butler

AP Photo

By JACK BETTS
Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler, R-Va., who has voted twice in the
last five days in support of articles to im-
peach President Nixon, declared Tuesday
the committee needed no further articles
and voted against 3 more impeachment
motions.

Butler voted with 14 other Republi-
cans and two Democrats Tuesday after-
noon in opposing a successful move to
impeach the President for failure to com-
ply with committee subpoenas for presi-
dential tape recordings.

The Roanoke native had voted for
each of the committee’s subpoenas ap-
proved on four different occasions during
the sixth-month impeachment inquiry.

Later, Butler opposed another motion
— that lost 26-12 — to impeach the Presi-
dent on grounds that he had abused his of-
fice and usurped constitutional powers in
his decision to bomb Cambodia during the
Vietnam War.

Late Tuesday night, Butler joined the
majority in refusing to support impeach-
ment of Nixon for irregularities in his tax
returns and alleged misuse of public funds
in improvements to his California and
Florida homes.

The “no” votes on the resolutions
were expected. Earlier, Butler said he
would listen to the arguments of the propo-

nents of the articles but doubted he would
support them.

During debate Tuesday, he said '"'ap-
proving further articles of impeachment
would “extend this proceeding unneces-
sarily” and added, “we don’t need this
additional article.”

He said also that “to impeach a Presi-
dent for failure to cooperate in his own im-
peachment inquiry ... in my opinion is
unfair. This article violates my sense of
fair play and I’m prepared to vote against
it.”

Butler said he was concerned about
the President’s noncompliance with the
committee’s subpoenas but that he be-
lieved impeachment on those grounds
without first exhausting all other avenues
was “unwise.”

He said those avenues would have in-
cluded such actions as a congressional res-
olution directing the President to show
cause why he should not be found in con-
tempt, and litigation in the federal courts
to obtain materials demanded by the com-
mittee.

Butler voted last Saturday with five
other Republicans to impeach the Presi-
dent for obstruction of justice in the Wa-
tergate breakin and coverup case.
Monday, he sided with six other Republi-
cans in supporting a second article of
impeachment, that one finding the
President had abused the powers of the
presidency.

Lost 3 Articles

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The House
Judiciary Commmittee formally conclud-
ed its epic impeachment inquiry Tuesday
night by thrice urging “in the name ... of
all the people” that Richard M. Nixon be
stopped of the presidency for high crime
and other misconduct.

In the final hours the committee voted
a third impeachment article for Nixon’s
defiance of its subpoenas. It rejected
charges based on his personal finances
and the secret bombing of Cambodia.

“This concludes the work of the com-
mittee,” intoned Chairman Peter W. Rodi-
no, D-N.J., after the final vote less than an
hour before midnight.

Thus, automatically and without a fi-
nal symbolic vote, the panel of 38 lawyers
affirmed a covering resolution as the vehi-
cle for action by the House — and possibly
the Senate — on three articles charging
the Republican executive with “high
crimes and misdemeanors.” To wit:

— Obstructing justice in covering up
the Watergate affair, a political scandal
born two years ago when Republican
agents burglarized and bugged Democrat-
ic national headquarters.

—Misusing federal agents and agen-
cies in broad-scale violation of citizens’
rights through wire-tapping, tax investiga-
tions and other activities.

—Refusing to comply with eight com-
mittee subpoenas for 147 tape-recorded
conversations and other material sought
as evidence for the impeachment inquiry.

The end of the committee’s six days of
nationally televised deliberations seemed
almost anti-climactic after the high dra-
ma of the initial, crucial vote Saturday
night on the first impeachment article.

The committee’s umbrella resolution
urged that a majority of the 435-member
House, “in the name of itself and of all the
people of the United States of America,”
place Nixon on trial in the Senate. There, a
two-thirds vote would convict and remove
him from office.

Only once before in America’s 198
years has a presidential impeachment
come this far — in 1868 when Andrew
Johnson was impeached by the House but
acquitted by the Senate.

Nixon, who 20 months ago was re-
elected with the largest popular vote in the
nation’s history, has repeatedly pro-
claimed he is innocent of an impeachable
offense. And he has vowed to fight to the
bitter end of a Senate trial if necessary.

There was no immediate comment
Tuesday night from Nixon or his spokes-
men.

But four hours before the committee’s
final vote, Treasury Secretary William E.
Simon emerged from a meeting with Nix-
on declaring “I’ve never seen the Presi-
dent in a more positive, affirmative frame
of mind.”

The committee is expected to take
about a week to prepare the back-up re-
port accompanying the resolution sent to
the House, including dissenting views of
Nixon’s defenders.

Those presidential supporters found
themselves on the losing side of the votes
on the three articles: 27 to 11 on the first,
28 to 10 on the second and 21 to 17 on the
third.

The size of the bipartisan edge on the
See Page 2, Col. 2

Voted Down 26- 1 2 •

From Page I

lirst two articles has caused even some of
nixon s staunchest defenders to concede
mat House Impeachment is a strong possi-
bility. (

Republican Sen. John Tower of Texas,
for example, said Tuesday the White
House view that the issue will never reach
a Senate trial “is a singularly unenligh-
tened one.”

House debate Is expected to start in
mid-August and last about two weeks. If
impeachment is voted, -congressional lead-
ers hope to begin a Senate trial in late Sep-
tember.

The charge that Nixon evaded income
taxes and used federal funds to improve
his California and Florida homes was de-
feated 28 to 12 after two hours of some-
times acrimonious debate.

The committee rejected by the same
margin an attempt to cite the secret
bombing of Cambodia as a fourth im-
peachment article. This decision came
hours after it had adopted 21 to 17 the third
’ article on Nixon’s defiance of the panel’s
demands for evidence.

„ I" all, the panel had logged 35 hours,
46 minutes in the open phase of its deliber-
ations.

Rep. Edward Mezvinsky. DIowa, of-
fered an article charging the President
“knowingly and fraudulently failed to re-
port certain income and claimed deduc-
tions ... on his federal income tax returns
which were not authorized by law.”

Rep. Charles Sandman, RN.J., argueg
’“there is absolutely no attempt to de-
fraud” in the President’s tax returns.
“You cannot be held for fraud if you rely
on the advice of an attorney and that's
what Richard Nixon did.”

“I’m thoroughly convinced,” said
Mezvinsky “that the evidence justifies —
indeed it even demands - that the Presi-
dent be called to account for the matter of
how he handled his federal tax returns.”

The tax article was based primarily
on findings that because of improper de-
(?r the tax years I960 through
1972, the President was liable for 4*32,78?
to bath taxes and penalties. Nixon subse-
quently agreed to pay the'amouat.

r, ull rcrcyMQtog Nixon's reme
from office, the committee voted 27 to

Saturday to accuse Nixon of obstructing
justice in the Watergate coverup and de-
cided 28 to 10 Monday to charge him with
misusing federal agencies.

The third article was submitted by the
committee’s second ranking Republican,
Rep. Robert McClory of Illinois, who said
Nixon’s defiance o? subpoenas for 147
aped conversations was, “the prime ex-
ample of stonewalling.”

It was the only one of the impeach-
ment articles sponsored by a Republican.

The Cambodia proposal marked the
first time ail 17 Republicans voted against
an impeachment article.

Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr., R-N.Y., said
“the fact is, we in the Congress share re-
sponsibility” for keeping the facts of the
Cambodia bombing from the American
people.

*fop. M. Caldwell Butler, R-Va., noted \
t that congressional leaders were told about '
I the bombing but did not pass the informa-
\ tion to other members of Congress.

• All 17 of the Republicans opposed the
motion and were joined by nine of the
Democrats, including chairman Peter W.
Rodino Jr. The panel then recessed for 90
minutes before entering what likely would
be its final session*

The Cambodia article was offered by
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and charged'
Nixon “ordered and ratified the conceal-
ment from the Congress of the facts ...

(of) the scope and nature of American
bombing operations in Cambodia.”

^ » •

Time for debate was limited to 90 min-
utes and eight committee members said
they wanted to speak in support of it whiie
u Republicans and southern Democrats
sought time to oppose it. •

Conyers said Nixon “unilaterally took
action against another soveriegn nation
then denied to us and the American people
that he had done so.”

Rep. Delbert L. Latta, R-Ohio, said
there were more than 500,000 American
troops In Southeast Asia and “I think the
American people, particularly the moth-
ers and wives of the men who are alive
today ’ would oppose impeachment be-
cause of the bombing.

THE Mews — AP Wirephoto

TIRED EYES — Bright television lights and long days of hearings took toll on eyes
of House Judiciary members Tuesday. Rubbing eyes are Rep. George Danielson, D-
Calif., top; Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y , bottom left; and Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, R-
Va., whose district includes Lynchburg.

August, 1974

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Second Section

Opinion • Church • Youth • Sports

Thursday, August 1, 1974 Page 15

l On Thursday, July 25,
Sixth District Congressional
Representative M. Caldwell
Butler told the House
Judiciary Committee that
“While I still reserve my
final judgement, I would be
less than candid if I did not
now say that my present
inclination is to support
articles incorporating my
view of the charges of ob-

struction of justice and
abuse of power (for the
impeachment of the
President ).”

Butler told the committee
that “If we fail to impeach,
we have condoned and left
unpunished a course of
conduct totally inconsistant
with the reasonable ex-
pectations of the American
people; we will have con-
doned and left unpunished a
President’s course of con-
duct designed to interfere
with and obstruct the very
process which he is sworn to
uphold; and we will have

condoned and left un-
punished and abuse of power
totally without
justification.”

Butler gave as his ob-
servations two things which
he felt could have a bearing
on what the Congress would
eventually do: that the
“people of the United States
are entitled to assume that
their President is telling the
truth;” and that “The
pattern of misrepresentation
and half-truths that emerges
from our investigation
reveals Presidential policy
cynically based on the

premise that the truth itself
is negotiable.”

Butler cited the IT&T case,
the FBI’s investigation of
Daniel Schorr, the lack of
remorse or regrets by the
President over what has
occurred, the continuing
policy by the President of
coverup after March 21, 1973
the Presidential abuse of
power given him by statute
and the Constitution and that
the President condoned and
encouraged the use of the
Internal Revenue Service
Taxpayer Audit as a means
of harassing his political
enemies.

Butler told the committee
that “In short, power ap-
pears to have corrupted : It is
a sad chapter in American
history. But I cannot con-
done what I have heard; I
cannot excuse it, and I
cannot and will not stand still
for it.”

Butler Speaks Strongly In Favor Of Impeachment

Sixth District Congressman M. Caldwell Butler
voted Saturday in favor of the first article of im-
peachment against President Richard M. Nixon, and
on Monday voted in favor of a second article of
impeachment.

Butler, in an opening statement Thursday, told
the House Judiciary Committee that “there are fright-
ening implications for the future of our country
if we do not impeach the President..."

Butler’s compete opening is printed below:

For years we Republicans have campaigned against
corruption and misconduct in the Administration
of the Government of the United States by the other
party.

"And somehow or other we have found the cir-
cumstances to bring that issue before the American
people in every succeeding national campaign.

But Watergate is our shame. Those things hap-
pened in the Republican Administration while we had a
Republican in the White House and every single person
convicted to date has one way or the other owed
allegiance to the Republican party.

It is we, not the Democrats, who must demonstrate
that we are capable of enforcing the high standards
we would set for them.

The gentleman from California, Mr. Wiggins, in his
remarks of this morning reminds us once more
that we must measure the conduct of the President
against the standards imposed by law.

I would like to share with you for a moment
some observations I have with reference to these
standards.

with and obstruct the very process he has sworn to
uphold. And we will have condoned and left unpunished
an abuse of power totally without justification.

And we will have said to the American people
these misdeeds are inconsequential and unimportant.

Consider the case of Richard Kleindienst, nominee
for the Attorney General of the United States. The
President had told him in unmistakable terms that
he was not to appeal the I.T.T. case. But before
the Senate of the United States, Mr. Kleindienst ex-
plicitly denied any effort by the President to influence '
him in this regard. And the President -who had know-
ledge of this affirmed to the people of the United
States his continuing confidence in this man.

The record is replete with official Presidential (
misrepresentations of non- involvement, and represen- ,

tations of investigations and reports never made if
indeed undertaken at all. There are two references
to a Dean report which we have not seen.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Let me also observe that throughout the extensive
transcripts made available to us of intimate Presi-
dential conversation and discussions there is no real *
evidence of regret for what has occurred or remorse f
or resolutions to change and precious little reference 7
to or concern for constitutional responsibility, or I
reflection upon the basic obligations of the office of i
the President.

It is my judgment also that the standard of conduct
which the American people are reasonably entitled
to expect of their President is established in part
by experience and precedent; And this is one reason
why I am so convinced about what has been revealed
to us by our investigation.

It will be remembered that only a few hours ago
the gentleman from Iowa, Mr. Mayne, has argued
that we should not impeach because of comparable
misconduct in previous Administrations.

If we fail to impeach, we have condoned and left
unpunished a course of conduct totally inconsistent
with the reasonable expectations of the Americar
people. We will have condoned and left unpunished a
Presidential course of conduct designed to interfere

In short, a power appears to have corrupted. It is
a sad chapter in American history but I cannot condone
what I have heard, I cannot excuse it and I cannot
and will not stand still for it.

nr,

Butler Plans Farm
Conference Aug. 5

Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, the
Sixth Virginia District’s
member of the House of
Representatives, will hold his
third annual farm conference at
the McCormick Farm near
Steete’s Tavern a few miles
^^portheast of Lexington next
Monday, Aug. 5.

The conference will start at 10
a.m. and there will be a free
^^N^barbecue luncheon at noon.

For this occasion Mr. Butler
will be joined by two House
r colleagues, Rep. William C.
Wampler of the Ninth District,
and Rep. J. Kenneth Robinson of
f\ the Seventh District, who will be
co-sponsors, and by a high level
official of the U. S. Department
of Argiculture. All three
congressmen are Republicans.

Mr. Butler indicated the
conference will p™ phasic -air
kifttfiiiai give and take session
between Sixth District farmers
X and agricultural interests
' present and the panel. An op-
portunity for more formal
presentations by those who
desire this opportunity will also
be provided, however.

Representatives of the Soil
Conservation Service, Farmers
Home Administration, State
Department of Agriculture and
Commerce, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation !
Service, Occupational Safety
and Health Administration, and
VPI’s Agricultural Extension
Service and Agriculture Ex-
periment Station will be present
to respond to questions. They
will also remain afterward in
order to provide personal
assistance and answer inquiries.

Mr. Butler said that although
it id not essential, those planning
either to speak at the conference
or attend the barbecue are urged
to call or write any of his offices
and advise.

Agriculture official *

. . -DPUHA wfWce ■

to be on farm panel

WASHINGTON - Sixth Dis-
trict Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
said today that Assistant Secre-
tary of Agriculture Clayton
Yeutter will join the panel for
his farm conference Aug. 5 at
the McCormick Farm near
Steeles Tavern.

Yeutter heads the Interna-
tional Affairs and Commodity
Programs Division of the De-
partment of Agriculture and is
responsible for the areas of
domestic farm programs and
for export markets for Ameri-
can farm products.

The panel session will begin
at 10 a.m. and will be followed
by a free barbecue luncheon at
noon.

Yeutter has a law degree
and a PhD in agricultural eco-
nomics from the University of
Nebraska, and has operated a
2,500-acre crop farming and cat-
tle ranch in central Nebraska.
He has served as both adminis-
trator and assistant secretary
for the U.S.D.A.’s Consumer
and Marketing Service.

Butler said Yeutter “knows
all aspects of agriculture and

we are extremely lucky to nave
him.”

Yeutter will be serving on
the panel with Rep. William
Wampler, ranking minority
member of the House Agricul-
ture Committee, as guest pan-
elists. Rep. J. Kenneth Rob-
inson, who is co-sponsoring the
event with Butler, and Butler
will complete the four-member
panel.

Butler said that “With Con-
gressman Wampler and Assis-
tant Secretary Yeutter we have
two of the most knowledgeable *
men in Washington for agri- -
cultural policy. Accordingly
our format this year will em-
phasize the opportunity for in-
dividual exchange with the
panelists. This will be a learn-
ing experience for both the
guests and for the members of
the panel.”

Also participating in the
conference as a resource per-
s onnel will be representatives
of the Soil Conservation Ser- '
vice, Farmers Home Adminis-
tration, State Department of
Agriculture and Commerce

Roivland Evans and Robert Novak

Ford: A Time for Independence?

Vice President Gerald Ford has
launched his trenchant new defense of
President Nixon to avoid political re-
prisal from the pro-Nixon Republican
hardcore, undercutting him with Re-
publican moderates — including staunch
friends in the House.

Ford’s thesis, spelled out to aides re-
peatedly, is that he must not risk a
trace of a fingerprint on the impeach-
ment dagger to insure tljat the Repub-
lican right wing will not turn on him.

As Republicans and voters of all per-
suasions join the pro-impeachment'
ranks, intimates say Ford is convinced
their resentment will disappear if, in
the end, he is catapulted into the
White House. That is in the future. For
the present at least, even old Republi-
can friends are expressing doubts
about the Vice President’s political
judgment in handling a dedicate and
unprecedented situation.

In fact, the Vice President has been
subjected to quiet pressure from his
i own staff not to tie himself to Mr.
Nixon.

Just as the House Judiciary Commit-
tee began its formal impeachment in-
vestigation, a Ford aide drafted a
speech for the Vice President to get
him off the hook. The thrust of that
never-delivered speech: now that the
House is considering the evidence, it
would be injudicious for Ford to ex-
press an opinion since such evidence is
not available to him; he had faith in
I the President but would refuse ex '
• parte judgments.

Ford threw the speech away, to the
dismay of staff aides anxious to pre-
serve Ford’s credibility and popularity.

Ford’s political lieutenants say he
has no intention today of modifying
his loyalist defense of the man who
made him Vice President. He still lob-
bies quietly, urging House Republicans
to give Mr. Nixon the benefit of every
doubt (but avoiding arm twisting).

His top assistants have been dis-
mayed by the escalation of Ford’s pub-
lic defense of the President while
other Republicans abandon the sinking
presidential ship. That new intensity
began July 25 in Muncie, Ind., in his
speech for Rep. David Dennis, a Nixon
defender on the Judiciary Committee
facing re-election troubles — a speech
viewed by some Ford intimates as a
disaster.

Outside pressure for a chapge of
course is on 'the rise. There is almost
as much gossip in the House Republi-
can cloakroom over Ford’s repeated
declarations of Mr. Nixon’s total
“innocence” as over impeachment it-
self. The criticism comes not only from
pro-impeachment Republicans but
from fence-sitters and Nixon loyalists
deeply worried that Ford is frittering
away his gilt-edged asset of national
popularity by blatant catering to the
dwindling Nixon hardcore.

(i We all want Jerry to shut up and
stay that way,” one of his longtime
friends in the House told us. “He is the
hope of the party and of the country
for 1976.”

What gives that critical comment
special force is the fact that it comes
from one of the elected House Republi-
can leaders, a Ford-style Republican
who himself is uncommitted.

Another member of the House Re-
publican leadership holds similar
views. Ford, he says privately, is wast-
ing his unique political assets both
within his party and in the country at
lj*rge by asserting Mr. Nixon’s inno-
cence in the face of overwhelming
House Judiciary Committee votes de-
claring him guilty of impeachable acts.

Ford is being strongly advised not to
overestimate the pro-Nixon hardcore,
particularly with the defections of
such conservatives as Maryland’s Rep.

Lawrence J. Hogan and Virginia’s
C aldwell Butler. The Hogans and the
Butlers, they believe, are vastly more
important than the handful of ultra-
Nixonites who have written the Vice
President scathing letters foi\ having
said that a vote for impeachment will
not keep him from campaigning on be-
half of a Republican congressman.

But Ford seems oblivious. Concen-
trating in his cross-country speaking
tours on Stone Age Republican audi-
ences who roar their approval of his
defense of Mr. Nixon, Ford seems out
of touch with the trend among House
Republicans now threatening the Pres-
ident with a massive impeachment de-
feat.

That could leave Ford a hero witli

By Frank Johnston— The Washington Post

the so-called hardcore but a villain— at
least momentarily-— with the rest of
the country. More uncomfortably for
Ford, he would be on the wrong side
of the fence from every Republican in
Congress who ends up voting not that
“the President of the United States is
right,” as Ford proclaimed in Muncie,
but that he is very wrong.

Having spoken out loudly for Mr.
Nixon when other Republican leaders
were silent, Ford has more than paid
his. dues. Now, his friends believe, is
the time to avoid getting trapped on
the wrong side of the fence, not by
turning against the President, but by]
simply deciding to “shut up and stay J
j that way.”

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Letters to the editor - ^

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1
fed

Butler’s actions

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please readers 1

MR. HOREN’S letter published in The World-News (Aug.l)
motivates me to stand up and be counted in support of our states-
man, M. Caldwell Butler.

In my opinion Mr. Horen is amiss in his accusation that Rep.
Butler is acting contrary to his law training. The vote to impeach
Richard Nixon is not a conviction of guilt but rather a vote to of-
fer Mr. Nixon the opportunity to defend himself against the al-
leged nefarious actions committed while Hd was in the office of
president of the United States. His innocence or guilt will be de-
cided by the U.S. Senate if the House of Representatives follows
the recommendations of its judiciary committee.

As a member of this committee, Mr. Butler rose above party
lines to vote his convictions thereby putting his political future ort
thd line. This, Mr. Horen, separates the politician from the
statesman. I am proud that my representative is a proven
statesman.

We need more M. Caldwell Butlers to preserve bUr great sys-
tem from present or future tyranny and I shall support hini (“my
representative”) at the polls.

GEORGE &EiGLER

Roanoke

Praise for butler

REPRESENTATIVE M. Caldwell Butler is to be commend-
ed, and the people of the Sixth District to be congratulated, on his
part in the work of the Judiciary Committee of the House of
Representatives. ;

We are fortunate to have as our representative a man who
has the integrity to put what he thinks is right ahead Of personal
interest. I hope that he will (continue to work for us for many
years to come. /

Butler-I\ixon ■

f " ! anyone- Watching the tibiae judiciary

ings July 29 hiay have wondered why M. Caldwell Butlerklpt--^
yielding his time when asked to speak. Could it be that he was
! afraid of his convictions, that he did not have any, Or that he
might want to retract them the next day? I do hot trust anyone
who i$ afraid to voice his convictions, or who will hot stand by
them. As for the man that Mr. Butler is so anguished Over spedk-
- ihg out against, he has finally been exposed as the fraud that he is
1 and always has beeH. *

j Richard M. Nixoh is fioW hiding behind the respect for the
office of the presidency. I aril sure all Americans have great re-
spect fob this office, but in the minds of the vast rriajority of
Americans, there is no respect left for the man.

in November, M. Caldwell Butler will find out if he pleased
or fooled enough of the people With his wishy-washy perfor-
mance.

i , IRENE FERGUSON

Vinton

J f , i

Enough lawyers

BOTH SUPPORTERS and critics of Mr. Butler's initial post-
tion on the impeachment of Mr. Nixbn need to review all actions
taken by him during the hearing. They may find themselves trad-
ing comers. Specifically, it appears that his actions were that of
sortitio (drawing of lots) as to his stand for good and against evil,
dr for evil against good.

initially, his first two votes indicated his revulsion against
unlawful acts. Then he apparently could see no fevil in Mr. Nix-
bn‘s failure to comply with a lawful subpoena, or in Mr. Nixon’s
conversion of government service to his own private personal
gain. The above mentioned charges were made with the utmost
clarity, and were fully supported by either Self-dcknowledged or
undeniable evidence.

Mad you or I committed any one of the above unlawful acts,
we Would have long-since suffered the penalty of law. However,
i with regards to Mr. Nixon, we have Mr. Butler joining many oth-
er lawyers on the committee establishing two standards of law-
one for we, the people— the other placing Mr. Nixoh beyond the
law. Remember that only through the impeachment process can
he be held accountable to the same legal standards as those for
every other citizen.

Voters of the Sixth Cpngressional District, based on the
above, you and I know that we should plead “non compos mentis”
and have our heads examined if in November we should select a
lawyer to represent us in Congress.

FRANKLIN M. RIDENOUR

Roahoke

* LAURAS. WEAVER

Roanoke

Butler * courageous.

THIS IS A letter to congratulate Mr. Butler on his fine perfor-
mance on the Judiciary Committee. He certainly showed much
courage and high moral standards whert he voted for the im-
peachment articles against Nixon.

When faced with the overwhelming evidence, be voted hte
convictions. Certainly if his few other Republican constituents
had voted on the obvious evidence, there would have been almost
unanimous coalition among the committee as a whole.

No matter, the die is cast and justice is close at hand. If Mr.
Butler has lost a few hard-core Republcian votes in the district,
they will be made up by the many Democrat and independent
votes for him come nerft election. He has mine.

ROBERT GREGORY JR.

Roanoke County

Consolidated governments

. . • ('•

THE SPRAWLING North Florida city of Jacksonville is the
seat of the largest locally consolidated government in the United
States.

In 1968 citizens of Jacksonville and urban Duval County- Voted
2-to-l for a consolidated government, and they have been saving
money ever since.

Not only that, but every property owner in Jacksonville has
had his taxes reduced over the past six years. Why is it that it is
taking the citizens of the Roanoke Valley and surrounding areas
so long to consolidate and save money for all of the citizens?

I was a member of the fohner Citizens’ Committee for
Greater Roanoke, which strongly recommended consolidation
about 10 years ago. Nothing has changed my mind since to favor
consolidation. From a statewide standpoint, there iS no real rea-
son for more than 30 to 40 local governments In all of Virginia*
Think of the staggering tax savings that Will eventually result

Robert j. Wilkinson jr.

Roahoke ' j- *

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The World-News, Roanoke, Va.» I

Bland
Armistead

t*g*i*f* \

History made
but not noted

I have a friend who adopted a real Lenten attitude
about the presidential impeachment hearings this week
She cut out her daily joys of televised money-grabbing 1
games and heart-rending soapies and, in magnificent
self-denial, went channel by channel down the whole road
with the House Judiciary Committee.

While the hearings were not her idea of the ultimate
in entertainment, and the back of her bouffant is mashed
from long sessions on the lounge, she believes she got a
whole lot out of the committee’s doings. This is because
she has been heard to boom about what an uncivil age
this is, a time when seats are not relinquished to ladies, a
time of boorishness and venality, but none of that showed
among the courtly committee members, mostly because
there were seats enough to go around for the ladies, and
no one wanted to act boorish while on television.

My friend was utterly charmed by the resonant
references to “the gentleman from Indiana,” for exam-
pie, and the general friendliness of style and mannerly
dispositions towards “the gentlewomen from New York
and Texas.”

Of equal importance to her way of thinking, she being
not too mindful of historic events, she has decided Chair-
man Peter Rodino looks very much like Ray Milland and
her decision comes with authority-she’s in front ’of a
movie screen with her screamies when she’s not in front
of the television with her soapies, and she hasn’t gotten
over how impressive Ray Milland was in “Lost Weeken-

She tells her overdrinking cronies they should check
problem with him “because he’s been through it
all, but they claim they’ve never hidden a bottle in a
chandelier like Ray did, and where they do hide their
morning nips is none of Ray’s business anyhow, so that’s
how far her crusade for temperance has gotten.

Movie a sure thing

But she knows she’s on to a good thing in another
direction after faithful viewings for six days and
possessing the oracle eye. She thinks the whole
Watergate affair, from the bumbling at the door to the
-S’rr^ odino ’ s gave,) will be a box office smash, and

ShThS ° r a wedge in the m ovie rights. ~

Lome Green TJ Cast: Ray Milland for Rodino, naturally;
thJ wavXiir?V‘ Bonanza ” t0 P ,ay Charles Wiggins

collar around t°o pinm^Vathe? 6 ' n™" 8 ft
Massachusetts; and Lloyd Nolan sfenn B ° b - ? nn ? n
Tom Railsback, the gentleman from ifhnofs ft

I asked how she would cast the rest of the committee
and she said she would get to that later. Right now she’s
working on the smaller details, like checking
moustaches, and who of the committee has one The an
swer is one John Conyers Jr. of Michigan.' Having
become familiar with “deception and concealment ”
which has rung in her ears for so long, she has ascer-
tained some kind of ill-fitting wig hides Ray Thornton’s"
cranium (as apparent when the gentleman from Arkan-
sas. was on “Face the Nation” with the gentleman from
Virginia, CakLwg ll B utler . My friend hasn’t cast him

But she’s looking especially for Rep. Ed Mezvinsky’s
double, considering him among the handsomest of the
group with his wavy hair and dimpled chin, and she
wishes Felix Frankfurter were still around to portray the
impeccable David Dennis of Indiana who spoke in so
scholarly a manner.

fH E DAILY ADVANC

LYNCHBURG, VA., FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1974

Scott blames labor, media
for impeachment climate

RTflHMOMn /Adi ^ . .

RICHMOND (AP) - Sen
, William R. Scott, R-Va., said
f today labor unions and the lib
l eral media are partly to blame
fc for the pro-impeachment
climate which he conceded is
growing stronger day by day in
[ Congress.

In a news conference de-
voted almost exclusively to the
! move to impeach President
j Nixon, Scott gave few specifics
( t0 ba ^k up his charge against
\the media.

But he noted labor unions
contributed heavily to the reel-
ection campaigns of Democrat-
ic members of the House Judi-
ciary Committee, which has
voted three articles of im-
peachment against the Presi-
dent.

The conservative senator
seemed to indicate in his re-
sponse to questions that he has
tempered his previous op-
timism that Nixon won't be
impeached and agreed that it

. ..HI. —

now appears almost certain the
matter will come to trial in the
Senate.

As for the Senate’s .action,
he said, “I would guess it
would not vote for impeach-
ment.”

Scott reiterated his belief
that Nixon has committed no
impeachable offense, but went
on to say he would vote for
impeachment if the charges
against the President were
“supported by provable facts.”

“I’m not suggesting that the
President hasn’t done things
he shouldn’t have done,” the
senator said, “but they haven’t
been proven.”

Scott conceded things have
“changed for the worse” for
Nixon in recent weeks. But he
said the President should still
be extended a presumption of
innocence until there is “clear
and convincing evidence” of
major wrongdoing.

Scott said he didn’t agrt
with the conclusions reached

by 6th District Republican Red *1’ °™ 11 5aia ne

M. Caldwell Butler, who vote, i jXHSTVS* l™ 68 of
for two of the three impeach ffiuSS* *"i short of co "‘
ment articles, but wouldn” j! tltutl0nal requireme nts,
question Butler’s right to react ~ ^ —

those conclusions.

At the same time, however,
he said, “I will have some
hesitancy” about campaigning
for Butler in his re-election bic
this year. And Scott made it
plain that his reason would be
Butler’s vote for the impeach-!
ment articles as a member of
the Judiciary Committee.

Scott repeatedly declined
when asked, to amplify his
charge against the liberal me

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Scott

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dia.

He did say, however, that on
rare occasions he reads the
Washington Post, and “I find it
slanted throughout.”

Asked whether he felt the
television broadcasts of the Ju-
diciary Committee’s delibera-
tions were anything but fac-
tual, he said, “Anyone who
nasnt heard anything of a
propaganda nature just hasn’t
been listening.”

Scott was more willing to
amplify his charge about labor
influence and cited figures
which, he said, showed labor
unions had contributed $189,000
to Democrats on the Judiciary
Comm ttee and only $2,100 to
Kepublican members.

He also noted that nine
members of the committee
were among the 35 con-
gressmen who voted against
confirmation of Gerald Ford as
vice president.

If they’d vote against him,

Its a sure thing they’d vote for
impeachment,” the senator
said.

He suggested the full House
would do well to “consider the
makeup of the committee”
during its debate on the im-
peachment articles.

While conceding that part of
the accumulation of evidence
■r “J^inst the President is “un-
d ,°n b K e , dly true ’” Scott s a'd lie

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The lonely Republican

7 By Roderick MacLeish

Washington excuse it, and I cannot and will not

The most moving drama of history
is not its acts - the voting of articles
for the impeachment of Richard
Nixon — but the inner turmoil in the
lives of people who participate in the
acts. Andrew Johnson escaped con-
viction. But the career of Republican
Sen. Edmund Gibson Ross of Kansas,
who by fidelity to principle saved
Johnson, was wrecked. That is the
drama of an ironic sort.

When, on the evening of July 25, 1974,
a forty-nine-year-old Virginia Re-
publican congressman named M.
Caldwell Butler looked into the mol-
ten eye of the national television
cameras and said, “There are
frightening implications for the future
of our country, if we do not impeach
the President of the United States,”
the drama was not immediately evi-
dent.

Most people watching the impeach-
ment inquiry of the House Judiciary
Committee that evening were aware
that Mr. Nixon’s fate in the House
depended, to some degree, on how
many committee Republicans sided
with the Democratic majority in
voting to send articles of impeach- 1
ment to the House floor.

That M. Caldwell Butler might
become one of those Republicans was
an improbable thing. Mr. Butler rep-
resents the Sixth District of Virginia
- a long valley sweeping out of the
Blue Ridge Mountains with Roanoke
as its population center. The sixth has
always been a Republican enclave in
traditionally Democratic Virginia.
When Mr. Butler went from there to
the Virginia general assembly in 1962,
he was one of only seven Republicans
in that body. By the time he was
elected to his first, full term in the
House in 1972, the Virginia Republi-
cans had captured the state house,
one of two Senate seats, and seven out
of Virginia’s 10 house districts.

Richard Nixon’s revival of the na-
tional Republican Party was one
reason for the Virginia GOP’s success
and Caldwell Butler knew it - and
liked it. He became a Nixon stalwart
in the House — with an 80 percent
support record for administation pro-
proposals — and when Watergate
erupted he was inclined to think of it
as a smear job on the President by
Democrats, liberals, and the press.

His migration from that comfort-
able, partisan view to the night, two
years later, when he told the com-
mittee, the nation, and the Sixth
District of Virginia that, “I cannot
condone what I have heard; I cannot

stand for it” is both complex and
simple.

The complexity came in the flood of
unorganized but revealing data that
poured in upon the committee from
tapes and transcripts. The Presi-
dent’s tax problems bothered Repre-
sentative Butler but he doubted they
were grounds for impeachment. The
use of the Internal Revenue Service to
“get” White House enemies deeply
disturbed him. He was shocked by
Mr. Nixon’s broken promise to Henry
Petersen - to keep details of the
Justice Department investigation se-
cret from potential defendants.

The simple moment came a few
weeks before the dramatic night of
July 25. At home in Roanoke Butler
tried to balance the threat to his long
Republican career and his emotional
and intellectual ties to his party
against the evidence which, to his
lawyer’s mind, unavoidably pointed
to wrongdoing. It didn’t work. He
decided for impeachment.

To Caldwell Butler it still seems
simple. He still supports the Nixon
program. He is still a deeply devoted
Republican, still a visceral if moder-
ate conservative. One suspects that
this amiable, unpretentious man is
puzzled by people who believe that he
has betrayed his party by succumbing
to conclusions about Richard Nixon’s
stewardship which are, to him, ob-
vious. “The moral issue,” he said, “is
the difference between me and the
White House.”

He may be in trouble in the sixth
district, especially in its rural
reaches. If he is, it will be because
those who dislike his leap to a moral
conclusion believe that the impeach-
ment issue which wracks this nation
is, somehow, a partisan game. Cald-
well Butler believes it is a matter
having to do with the uses of the
power that democracy grants — a
question beyond partisanship or ideo-
logy.

If Butler’s fidelity to his convictions
costs him his House seat, he may be
able to take compensation from some-
thing a fellow House member said
about him: “Caldwell Butler repre-
sents the genius of our system. Out of
all the people picked at random and
deposited by fate on the Judiciary
Committee, there was bound to be
someone as principled as him.”

Mr. MacLeish is an author and
radio and television commentator
for the Westinghouse Broad-
casting Company.

Virginia

By WAYNE WOODLIEF
Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON-U. S. Sen. William
L. Scott, R-Va., visited the House floor
and cloakroom this week to talk with
members of the Virginia delegation
about the imminent debate on the im-
peachment of President Nixon.

“He was just curious as to what the
other members thought,” said Rep
William C. Wampler, R-9th District, of
Bristol, one of the Virginians who dis-
cussed impeachment with Scott.

Rep. J. Kenneth Robinson, Winches-
ter Republican, said Scott “mentioned
that he was going to be in Richmond
Friday (for a press conference) and
that he was interested in surveying our
sentiment on impeachment so that he
might reflect, as much as he could, the

An Analysis

attitudes of the (Virginia) House mem-
bers.”

Don Ruby, Scott's administrative as-
sistant, said the senator had talked in-
formally Wednesday with members of
the House delegation “to assess what
has happened on impeachment and
what may happen in the future.'.’

The decision of Republican Rep. M
Caldwell Butler, the only Virginian on
the Judiciary Committee, to vote for
impeachment of Nixon for obstruction
of justice and abuse of powers has pro-
voked much soul-searching among But-
ler’s Virginia colleagues.

Labors Over Impeachment

Some delegation members, notably
Rep. Joel Broyhill of Arlington, Virgin-
ia’s senior Republican, have been
trying to find grounds for a delegation
consensus on impeachment.

Other members think that consensus
is impossible on an issue of such grave
personal as well as national conse-
quence, and that the delegation proba-
bly will split.

The betting among the delegation—
and among delegation watchers — is
that the split will be at least five votes
for impeachment, and perhaps six or
even seven if the current impeachment
momentum in the House continues.

Butler’s strong remarks on impeach-
ment— “I cannot condone what I have
heard; I cannot excuse it; and I cannot
and will not stand still for it”— struck a

responsive chord among Robinson,
Rep. G. William Whitehurst, R-Va., of
Norfolk, and Rep. Thomas N. Downing,
D-Va., of Newport News.

Whitehurst hailed Butler’s remarks
for their power and precision. Downing
termed them “magnificent” in a letter
he said he wrote Butler “immediately
after the speech.”

Robinson said Thursday, “I’m sure
(Butler) made a conscientious and sin-
cere decision based on his best judg-
ment.” J 6

Robinson said, “I hope I will not have
to vote for impeachment.” He said he
is “deeply disturbed” by indications
that Nixon misused “the agencies of
government, the IRS, the CIA.”

Rep. W. C. Daniel, D-Va., Danville
Democrat who is an old personal friend

of Nixon and who recently cruised the
Potomac with the President and a few
other congressmen on the presidential
yacht Sequoia, is considered Nixon’s
staunchest ally in the Virginia delega-
tion.

To a man the Virginia congressmen,
except for Butler, say they are uncom-
mitted on impeachment until they hear
the evidence for themselves in House
debate, which may begin Aug. 12.

Rep. Robert W. Daniel Jr., R-4th Dis-
trict, has been the most deliberate in
choosing his words on the issue. He
termed Butler a man of “high integrity
and conscience” but said, “I don’t
know that I will respond to the same
facts in the same way that he did.”

Rep. David E. Satterfield III, D-3rd
District, of Richmond has said he

wants to examine the evidence more
thoroughly.

Broyhill and Rep. Stanford Parris,
another Northern Virginia Republican,
have said the same thing. But they have
Washington suburban constituencies
with rising impeachment fever to con-
sider.

That leaves Rep. Wampler, generally
considered the delegation’s most vul-
nerable incumbent in this year’s elec-
tions.

Wampler said, “This probably will be
the most important vote I will ever cast
and I suppose in the final analysis I’ll
decide on the basis of whether to im-
peach or not to impeach is for the good
of the country.”

ROANOKE TIMES

Butler Mail
Now Favors
Impeachment

By JACK BETTS
Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON— After an initial out-
burst of vicious telephone calls and strong-
ly worded letters opposing his

to have turned decidedly— but not over-
whelmingly— favorable.

Butler’s staff, which has kept a run-
ning total of the mail to his district and
Washington offices this week, reported
that mail from the district was more than
56 per cent in favor of his proimpeachment
stand.

And, said Gail Goodson, Butler’s press
secretary, mail and telephone calls from
the rest of Virginia were slightly more fa-
vorable with nearly 59 per cent of the call-
ers and writers registering approval of his
vote for two articles of impeachment
against President Richard M. Nixon.

She said of nearly 1,000 letters and
calls received in the first two days this
week, 336 district constituents had ap-
proved the actions while 262 residents op-
posed them. From the rest of the state, 236
correspondents and callers favored them
while 142 opposed them.

The mail is flowing in from outside
Virginia, too, and while^he staff is not
- counting those letters ye“ most feel they
• are running more strongly favorable.

Like a number of members of the Ju-
diciary Committee. Butler and his wife,
June, received some obscene and threat-
ening calls. And, like most, he has re-
ceived at least 50 letters containing
stones, a reference to the Biblical admoni-
tion, “Let he who is without sin cast the
first stone.”

Butler doesn’t plan to throw them out,
however. He’s collecting them and dis-
playing them in a vase in his front office
One woman caller asked for his ad-
dress so she could send him 30 pieces of
sdveis apparenUy relating Butler to Ju-
das. The woman later hedged her bets and
sent only a quarter and a nickel. The coins
were put into the office safe, aides said.

On the other hand, several writers

: from both within and without the district-
have requested the addresses of Butler’s
re-election committee so, they said, they
can contribute to his campaign.

f it most writers and callers simply
exp. ss their opinions of the Republican
firs -termer.

Some of it was short and sweet.

"A combination of conscience and
guts,” wrote a Roanoke woman.

“Simply wonderful,” wrote a 73-year-
old retiree who promised campaign help.

-fPDresenr

said a Salem couple.

Others were more wordy, like a foui
page letter by a suburban Washingto
writer. “I might totally disagree with you
voting, record ... but your statement wa
like a fresh breeze,” she said in part.

One Roanoke Valley constituen
wrote, “Your statesmanship has real
firmed my trust in our process of govern
ment.”

A Lynchburg voter said, “I wish you
were wrong... Unfortunately you are cor-
rect on every point as I see it.”

Said a Covington resident, “You are
standing tall and strong.”

And then there was the other side.

A Buchanan area couple wrote a cu-
rious note. “We are shocked and highly
disturbed ... it is apparent that you have
deserted most of your constituents and
voted your conscience instead . . .”

And a Roanoker said, “It would seem
your announcement was timed and calcu-
lated to influence other votes on the com-
mittee . . .”

A Lynchburg correspondent was
downright incensed and asked Butler to
reconsider or else:

„ “I am through with Representative
Butler unless he reverses his position and
comes up with an equally dramatic state-
ment in support of President ^ixon, ,>

Then there was the Covington writer
who summed it up clearly if ungrammati-
ca ly: Petty offenses do not make peach-
able (sic) offenses."

A Lynchburg writer mourned Butler's
stand by writing, “When I watched you
voting along with the rag-tag radicals, my
heart broke."

And there was this note from a Hot
Springs writer who apparently worships
the President: “Compared to the other
presidents, he is the Prince of Peace."

But many of those who wrote to differ
with Butler showed they had retained
their sense of humor.

One, for instance, sent him a get well
card that said, “Hope you’re feeling better
soon."

No Impeachable Offense'
Proven, Says Sen. Scott

By GEORGE W. WILBUR

RICHMOND (AP) —
Sen. William L. Scott, R-Va.,
said Friday he would vote to
remove President Nixon from
office if charges against him
could be “supported by prov-
able facts.”

But he emphasized at a news
conference that, thus far, “I
; don’t' believe an impeachable
offense has been proven.” And
he expressed doubt that any
would be.

Scott, one of the most con-
servative members of the U.S.
Senate, softened his previous
| insistence that Nixon would
I never be impeached, let alone
f convicted in the Senate.

“I believe the Hous e will

vote to impeach the Presi-
dent,” he said.

And while admitting that it
was “pure speculation,” he
said, “I’d guess the Senate
would not vote for conviction.”

Conceded Changes Dim

Scott conceded that Nixon’s
chances of escaping impeach-
ment “have changed for the
worse” in recent weeks and
said this was due in part to the
emotional atmosphere of the
televised meetings of the
House Judiciary Committee,
which recommended three
articles of impeachment.

He said he was not in favor
of televising any further im-
peachment proceedings
because it precludes a fair

hearing and “brings out the
ham” in those taking part.

The senator questioned the
objectivity of the Judiciary
Committee and suggested that
the full House consider the
makeup of the committee dur-
ing its impeachment delibera-
tions.

He said he considered it sig-
nificant that labor unions had
made political contributions
totaling $189,000 to Democratic
members of the committee and
only $2,100 to Republican mem-
bers..

Hits Liberal Media
Scott singled out organized
labor and the “liberal media”
as having contributed to the
pro-impeachment climate
which he conceded has grown
to sizeable proportions in Con-
gress.

The Washington Post, he
said, “is slanted throughout.”
Scott said he disagreed with
the conclusions reached by 6th
District Republican Con-
gressman M. Caldwell Butler
who cast votes for two articles ,
of Impeachment as a freshman j
member of the Judiciary Com-
mittee.

Asked whether he would ,
help Butler’s campaign for re-
election, he said, “I would have
some hesitancy but that
doesn’t mean I wouldn’t cam-
paign for him if asked.”

On the other hand, he said
he already has agreed to work
with Rep. Stanford Parris,
RVa., in his campaign for reel-
ection from the 8th District, ,
despite Parris’ recent \
statement that he had some
reservations about the proprie-
ty of some of President Nixon’s
conduct.

No Clear Evidence
While insisting that he has
seen no “clear and convincing.
See SCOTT, B-4, Col. 6 !

t-ma --

Continued From B-l

wrnnaH 6 ’ ° f a" y P resid ential

wrongdoing, Scott said, “I’m

h a °I * U f geSti u g the President
hasn t done things he shouldn’t
have done but they haven’t
been proven.”

The senator said said he
idn t condone lawlessness at
any level but felt that many of
the presidential actions under
attack should be considered
“ ng

R ® fer / in s to protests over
the Vietnam War, radical ele-
tflreate ning violence

said “Th 0 U p nin ^° fthe f,ag ' he '
^ resident the Un-
ited States has a responsibility
to preserve this nation.

A man should be judged
within the framework of the ,
situation as it existed at that
time, he added.

. Scott said he still felt a ma- -
jority °f Virginians supported
Nixon and noted that his mail
was running as much as 10-to-l
on favor of the President
Asked whether Nixon has
made any effort to influence
his position on impeachment
the senator said, “He hasn’t
courted me.”

Scott said he thought it
would be “unwise” for the
President to seek a unanimous
vote of impeachment in the
House m order to expedite a
trial in the Senate.

"I think we should follow
the normal impeachment proc-
ess,” he said. ]

TOE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Saturday

, Auglla^3,

1974

arm Conference
Is Set For Monday

Sixth District Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler has announced final
plans for his farm conference
and barbecue, which will begin
at 10 a.m. Monday at the Mc-
Cormick Farm.

Guest panelists for the con-
ference are Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter,
who heads the division of In-
ternational Affairs and Com-
modity Programs; and Ninth
District Rep. William Wampler,
who is ranking minority
member of the House
Agriculture Committee. Seventh
District Rep. J. Kenneth
Robinson and Mr. Butler,
cosponsors of the event, will also
be panelists.

Mr. Yeutter will also make an
informal address at the free
barbecue luncheon which begins
at 12 noon, Mr. Butler said.

“I’m looking forward to a
lively discussion of agricultural
policies and problems,” said Mr.
Butler, “because our guest
panelists are experts who can
address the issues directly and
honestly. In addition, we have a
wide-ranging group of resource
personnel who can contribute
specific information about state
and local farm programs.”

He announced the names of

those persons who will serve as
resource personnel. They are S.
Mason Carbaugh, commissioner
of the State Department of
Agriculture and Commerce;
Ferris S. Anderson, district
supervisor of the Occupational
Safety and Health Ad-
ministration; David Grimwood,
state conservationist from the
U. S. Soil Conservation Service;
Richard Goodling, state director
of the Farmers Home Ad-
ministration; Mahlon Rudy,
state executive director of the
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service; Randal
M. Robertson, dean of the
Agricultural Research Division
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University; Dr. Coyt
T. Wilson, director of the
Agricultural Experiment Station
at Virginia Tech; and Dr. Frank
Ellmore, director of Agriculture
and Natural Resources at Tech.

To reach McCormick farm,
follow I-fll to Exit 54, proceed
east towards Steeles Tavern,
and follow the signs towards the
Shenandoah Valley Research
Station at the McCormick Farm.
Or, follow U. S. 11 to Va. 606 at
Steeles Tavern, proceed west on
606 and follow the signs to Mc-
Cormick Farm.

P • I THE ROANOKE TIMES

CUlTOriQlS Sunday, August 4, 1974

J Caldwell Butler's Critics

•m

Sixth District Congressman M.
Caldwell Butler has been subjected
to considerable criticism— some of it
in this newspaper’s letters column—
since his vote in support of two arti-
cles of impeachment against Presi-
dent Nixon. Much of that criticism,
th our view, has been manifestly un-
fair. personally based, and entirely
unfitting.

Reasonable people can differ
over whether the evidence so far
shown justifies the grave step of im-
peaching and possibly removing this
President from office. No one’s opin-
ion on that matter, however, should
automatically make him the object
of* personal attack, of charges that
he is viewing the evidence through
biased eyes, is pandering to political
opinion or has concealed motives.
j>ome of Mr. Nixon’s supporters on
the Judiciary Committee have been
vilified in that way, and it demeans
the level on which so momentous a
matter should be considered.

Perhaps the strangest thing said

about Mr. Butler is that he has
proved himself no true conservative.
That charge seems to equate conser-
vatism not with principle, but with
loyalty to a President who styles
himself a conservative. It implies
that one who sails under the flag of
conservatism can commit no
wrong— or that conservatives are in
such danger of extinction that they
cannot afford to abandon any of their
company. Surely, neither of these
premises is true.

Mr. Butler may be correct or he
may be misled in his reading of the
impeachment case. Either way, he
is a participant in a solemn and de-
liberate process expressly provided
for in the Constitution, and unless his
actions indicate otherwise, he is en-
titled to an assumption that he is act-
ing honorably and honestly. Mr.
Butler’s critics are convicting him
on a gram of circumstance, mean-
while asking that he ignore the
pounds of evidence that weigh
against the President.

Inside Politics

s 7 '/' 7/

Voting Convictions

By GEORGE M. KELLEY
Times Richmond Bureau

Virginians expect their congressmen
to vote their convictions, Gov. Mills.-E.
Godwin said recently and when a vote is
cast on that basis the voters usually under-
stand it.

This apparent maxim of state politics
was sounded as instant fame came to
freshman Rep. M. Caldwell Butler of Roa-
I n °ke and as other members of the state
delegation to Washington were hit with the
fact that they too will now have to stand up
and be counted on the impeachment of
President Nixon.

Butler came into the spotlight by shed-
ding his hardcore Republican trappings
and voting, as a member of the House Ju-
diciary Committee, for impeachment. His
6th District is known in the Old Dominion
as one where party lines are strong and
you don’t cross them frivolously.

Godwin, as a Democrat-turned-Re-
publican of just one year, seemed to be
, reflecting a personal understanding of
what Butler went through in reaching the
decision that he had to break out of his
party mold. And, after all, the voters un-
derstood when Godwin broke totally with
the state Democratic party in winning a
second gubernatorial term last fall.

An awareness of all the facts on an is-
sue usually brings on strong personal con-
viction, Godwin explained, and one has to
live with personal convictions.

His position also seemed to stand as a
signal to other Virginia lawmakers on the
Potomac that it’s easier to defend a vote on
a personal conviction than one on any oth-
er basis. And there was agreement among
campaign-scarred veterans who touch
base regularly at the Jeffersonian Capitol
here.

With the impeachment recommenda-
tions now going to the House of Represent-
atives, political sensitivity will next bear
down on Butler's six Republican col-
leagues in the Virginia delegation. Like
Butler, each of the six have Democratic
challengers in the fall election.

I Three Democratic incumbents—
Thomas Downing of Newport News, David
Satterfield of Richmond and W. C. “Dan”
Daniel of Danville— are unchallenged by
the GOP for new terms and consequently
will not have to consider any immediate
( political expendiency in deciding how they
will vote.

Neither will the state’s two U.S. sena-
tors, Independent Harry F. Byrd Jr. and
Republican William L. Scott, be under
election year pressures should the House
approve impeachment and make the trial
by the Senate mandatory. Byrd doesn’t
run again until 1976; Scott doesn’t come ud
until 1978. H

ittrmatter how you look at it, this just
isn t a good year for politicians and many
holding office from both parties feel
blessed that they do not have to stand for
election this year.

And expressions of this have become
more and more evident as the credibility
of politicians generally appears to be
eroding under what the politicians call “im-
peachment hysteria” and conclusions that
it s all over for Nixon, former Texas Gov.
John Connally and others who may be

eSnJea? SUCky aftermath of the 1972

Assessments early this year were that
me fallout from what is generally termed
Watergate wouW be felt primarily in
Northern Virginia's 8th and 10th districts.

And reports from the northern region indi-
cate this still stands as far as the partici-
pants in the campaigns now under way
there are concerned.

As a consequence, much attention now
is being focused on impeachment-related
statements by veteran 10th District Rep.
Joel Broyhill and freshman Stanford Par-
ris of the 8th. Both are Republicans and
how they vote when the full House mem-
bership makes its stand on impeachment
may be vital to their re-election chances.

Both men have moved cautiously dur-
ing the past week, despite pressures from
their Democratic challengers.

The two districts are made up primar-
ily of voters who work for the federal gov-
ernment and strong impeachment
sentiment is reported in government
worker circles. It should not be surprising
therefore, that both Broyhill and Parris
have hinted they would not be averse to
voting impeachment if the facts they get
in voluminous reports now being prepared
by the Judiciary Committee justify it.

There is evidence from across the
state that some Republican party stal-
warts are chilled by the thought a Republi-
can congressman would vote to impeach a
Republican president. And there also are
reports from Democrat campaigners in
Republican-held districts that they feel
the impeachment uproar is helping them.

“This is a good year to be a Demo- ,
crat, reported a worker in the conserva- <
tive-minded Southside 4th District where
Democrat Lester Schlitz is out to unseat i
Republican Robert Daniel. “People are - 1
volunteering to work and that’s different <
than it was for the Democrats in a past
election.”

These surface signs indicate the politi-
cal impact from the near total news con-
centration on impeachment in the past
month. But in the wake of the vote by the
Judiciary Committee last week, * the
Virginia pros still insist the woes for
Nixon will have only a passing or
moderate impact on most of the
congressional races.

w.ul p l vateiy ’ politicians at the state
level say they would not be surprised if
most of the 10 Virginia congressmen end

column 1 BUt er m the P ro * im Peachment

The outcome of the 2nd District race
between GOP incumbent William White-
hurst and Democratic newcomer Robert
Richard isn’t expected to hinge on how
Whitehurst votes on impeachment. He’s t
rated a moderate politically and even be-
fore Watergate had found the magic for-
mula for survival in what is traditionally a
Democratic stronghold. *

Nor is Bob Daniel’s vote expected to
Iff??.. 8 on his chances against

2SSW* Sch tz ‘ Southside politicians
report ideology still is the big factor there
along with the realities that civil rights

ln^ r f CurtlS .? arris is Potion to drain
VOt j S the Democrats as the inde-
pendent “third man” in the race.

„,. l .> ButIer may have made some of his Re-

HJT i on ? t, j. u « nts unh aPPy with his
vote on the Judiciary Committee but he
still is front-running the race there, ac-
cording to all political reports.

And in the 7th and 9th districts, where
Republicans Kenneth Robinson and Wil-
liam Wampler are the incumbents, re-
spectively the voting patterns also are
expected to be affected more by local s
sues than by the troubles of Richard Nix
on.

THE NEWS, Lynchburg, Va., Si

- — ™ -*^T

7 Nixon Lose

Of Solons

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
(AP) — Spokesmen for seven of
Virginia’s 10 congressmen
agree that at least half of the
Commonwealth’s strongly con-
servative delegation will vote
to impeach President Nixon.

In a poll taken by the
Charlottesville Daily Progress,
the staff members concluded
that the final vote among the

maries of evidence given
before the House Judiciary
Committee, and that the figure
may require revision when the
actual evidence is presented.
None, however, believe that
the additional evidence will
improve Nixon’s position with
the delegation.

The staff members in-
terviewed who would name
names, believe that four and
possibly five of the GOP mem-
bers are presently leaning
toward impeachment.

T%ey are Tteps. JwMJi'oyhm
of the 10th District, William
Whitehurst of the 2nd, Stan-
ford Parris of the 8th a nd M.
Caldwell Butler of the 6tB.

Under Pressure

Robert Daniel of the 4th is
also believed to be leaning
toward impeachment, but is
under terrific pressure from
his supporters in the con-
servative southside district to
stand by the President.

Only one GOP congressman,
J. Kenneth Robinson of the 7th
District, was believed to be
“locked into” a vote against
impeachment.

Of the Democrats, Thomas
Downing of the 1st District is
regarded as favoring a Senate
trial, with David Satterfield of

Army’s active rolls in recent
years as the Army was scaled
down drastically from the Viet-
nam war peaks of almost 20 *
divisions and a total Army
strength of about 1.5 million
men.

In effect, Callaway signalled
plans to bring these three
tradition-encrusted divisions
back on active duty.

the 3rd and W. C. (Dan) Daniel *

Impeachment Climate
Attributed to Media

RICHMOND (AP)~ Sen.

William R. Scott (R-Va.) said
yesterday labor unions and
the liberal media are partly to
blame for the pro-impeach-
ment climate that he conceded
is growing stronger day by
day in Congress.

In a news conference de-
voted almost exclusively to
consideration of the move to
impeach President Nixon,
Scott gave few specifics to
back up his charge against the
media.

He noted labor unions con-
tributed heavily to the re-elec-
tion campaigns of Democratic
members of the House Judici-
ary Committee, which has
voted three articles of im-
peachment against the Presi-
dent.

The conservative senator
seemed to indicate in his re-
sponse to questions that he
has tempered his previous op-
timism that Mr. Nixon won’t
be impeached and agreed that
it now appears almost certain
I the matter will come to trial
| in the Senate.

i A s for the Senate’s action,

> he said, “I would guess it
would not vote for impeach-
ment.”

Scott reiterated his belief
that Mr. Nixon has committed
no impeachable offense, but
went on to say he would vote
for impeachment if the
charges against the President
were “supported by provable
facts.”

I Mr. Nixon in recent weeks,
I but he said the President
should still be extended a pre-
sumption of innocence until
there is ‘clear and convincing
evidence” of major wrongdo-
ing.

Scott said he didn’t agree
with the conclusions reached
by 6th District Republican
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, who
voted for two of the three im-
peachment articles, but
wouldn’t question Butler’s
right to reach those conclu-

same time, however,

I will have some he-
about campaigning
his re-election

“I’m not suggesting that the
President hasn’t done things
he shouldn’t have done,” the
senator said, “but they haven’t
been proven.”

Scott conceded things have
“changed for the worsO” for '

sions.

At the
he said,
sitancy”
for Butler in
bid this year.

Asked whether he felt the
television broadcasts of the
Judiciary Committee’s deliber-
ations were anything but fac-
tual, he said, “Anyone who
hasn’t heard anything of a
propaganda nature just hasn’t
been listening.”

Whi}e conceding that part, of
the accumulation of evidence
against the President ,4s
“undoubtedly true/’ Scott said
he still believed the articles^ of
impeachment fell short of con-
stitutional requirements.

He said he thought the only
grounds for impeachment
would be a criminal offense.

The senator said mail from
his constituents is running; las
much as 10-to-l in favor of the

President

He said he hasn’t noticed
any special effort on the part
of the President’s forces to in-
fluence either his position im-
peachment or that of other
conservative members of the
Senate.

“He, Nixon, hasn’t courted
me,” he said.

f C v ' s" 7^

TheWorl d-News, Roanoke, Va. t Monday. Augus t 5 . 1974 (,

P oil indicates split on impeachment

i nr /vrrrr»rt fir t / a t^x tllACO fringe urnnM kmrA Kaam

CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP)

A poll taken by the Charlottes-
ville Daily Progress indicates
that at least half and maybe
more of Virginia’s 10 congress-
men will vote to impeach Presi-
dent Nixon.

Polled were staff members of
seven of the state’s congress-
men, who, while asking not to
be named, agreed that the final
vote among the Virginians will
range between 5-5 and 7-3 in fa-
vor of bringing Nixon to trial
before the Senate.

The staff members also
agreed that this estimate is
based on the summaries of evi-
dence given before the House
Judiciary Committee, and that
the figure may require revision
when the actual evidence is
presented, or when other evi-
dence such as the subpoenaed
tapes becomes available.

But none believed the Presi-
dent's position with the delega-
tion would improve because of
the additional evidence.

One Republican congress-
man’s press representative said
he is “scared to death’’ of the
tapes ordered turned over by
the Supreme Court.

“I can’t but believe that if

those tapes would have been
helpful to the President, they
would have been turned over
long ago," he said.

Ironically, the heaviest vote
favoring impeachment among
the Virginians will apparently
come from Nixon’s own party.

The staff members inter-
viewed who would name names
believed that four, or possibly
five, of the seven GOP mem-
bers are presently leaning to-
ward impeachment. In their

view, only one of the three
Democrats favors impeachment
at this time.

The Republicans believed to
be favoring impeachment are
Reps. Joel Broyhill of the 10th
District, William Whitehurst of
the 2nd, Stanford Parris of the
8th and M. Caldwell Butler of
the tyh. — " i iimum

Robert Daniel of the 4th Dis-
trict te believed to be also lean-
ing tqvard impeachment, but is
under (terrific pressure from his

supporters in the conservative
Southside district to stand by
the President.

Only one GOP congressman,
J. Kenneth Robinson of the 7th,
was believed to be “locked
into” a vote against impeach-
ment.

“Unless there is some real
dynamite evidence that makes
the vote all but unanimous, I
would say that Kenny Robinson
will hang in there with Nixon
along with Dave Satterfield and

Dan Daniel,” said a Republican
staffer.

Satterfield and Daniel are
Democrats who represent the
3rd and 4th Districts respe-
citvely.

Democrat Thomas Downing
of the 1st District is generally
regarded as favoring a Senate
trial. None of those questioned
would venture a guess as to the
position of the GOP 9th District
representative, William Wam-
pler.

/S\\

7 / ^

R 1

| Vepco’s decision on Bath project
I affects construction at site

MOUNTAIN GROVE
(AP) — For months, 80-
year-old Frank Foster sat
in his porch swing,
strategically situated
about 25 feet off State Rt.
600, and watched trucks,
earthmoving machines
and men move up into the
valley formed by Back
Creek and Lantz

Mountains in Bath County.

For several weeks,
however, he has been
watching most of them
move back out of the
valley.

It was a while before
i. Foster found out what was
happening, but now he,
i and nearly everyone else
in the county, knows,
s' In a word, the Virginia
Electric and Power Co.

' has decided to stop
construction on its $500
million hydroelectric
> storage facility — known
* locally as “the dam” — in
Bath County. Construction
jl w iH resume, according to
Vepco, in perhaps one to

and disappointed by the
disclosure.

Many had been counting
heavily on the estimated
$3 million to $4 million the
dam was expected to
generate annually once it
was finished. Now, to
many, the $3 million to $4
million seems a lot further
off.

"Even [The Board of

! three years.

Vepco officials

1 - announced July 24 that a
jdecline in earnings

coup led with rising

interest rates for
borrowing money
precluded completion of
the dam as well as
projects in the state.

A revised timetable calls
for the dam to be
operational in 1982 - three
years later than originally
planned. But a Vepco vice
president’s reported
s erpent recently that
the company may have
, difficulty obtaining a
r license from the Federal
Power Commission to
‘ builcl the dam has fired
, speculation in some
quarters that the project
will not be completed until
fr" afte r 1982, if at all.

For weeks prior to the
official announcement of
the dam’s postponement,
rumors circulated that a
layoff of - ) construction
workers at the dam site
portended abandonment or
at least delay of the
project.

A high-ranking Vepco
corporate officer told a
local weekly newspaper,
however, that nothing like
that was going to occur
an d the layoff of workers
merely marked a
transition from one phase
of the project to another.

Then shortly afterward,
in a series of hastily
called meetings with local
government leaders,
followed by a press
release, Vepco disclosed
that the dam would indeed
be delayed.

Local officials, the
business community and
apparently most other
Bath County residents
were shocked, surprised

Supervisors already had
tentatively earmarked
much of the money for
countywide improvements
such as the extension of
water and sewer service
to nearly every home. To
a small rural and
relatively poor county
such as Bath — the yearly
personal income is only
slightly more than $5,000

— countywide water and
sewer service was only a
dream.

Today, with the delay in
tax revenues from Vepco,
it is still only a dream.

According to local
sources, young people in
the county were depending
on the dam’s construction
to provide them with high

— paying jobs. They also
hoped to get on-the-job
training in trades that
would last them long after
the project was completed.
Some of them are now
preparing to leave the
county for jobs in other
areas.

A local government
leader said another victim
of Vepco’s decision to
delay the dam on Back
Creek probably will be the
vocational building
planned for Bath County
High School.

The building was
designed to provide
training for the large
number of county students
who do not go to college !
but who have few salable *
skills.

On Tuesday night, the
school board and the
Board of Supervisors will
meet to discuss whether to
go ahead with the
estimated $1 million
vocational vacility now
that the expected windfall
in tax revenues will not be
forthcoming.

Even though the arrival
of Vepco in Bath County
was welcomed
enthusiastically by the
Board of Supervisors,
chamber of commerce and
other civic groups, its

popularity was not
universal.

Some farmers and
hunters opposed the dam
because they felt it would
inundate irreplaceable
agricultural and hunting
land. Environmentalists as
well as several property
owners near the dam
complained that
construction activities
were silting streams and
that water supplies were
being threatened.

Overall, though,
opposition to the dam was
minimal because in most
minds, the economic
benefits far outweighed
other factors.

The base camp at the
site of the dam on Back
Creek now presents a
strange picture. For the
first time in months, huge
earthmoving machines sit
idle.

The large tract the
machines have scraped
and leveled in preparation
for a portion of the dam is
being seeded in grass. And
although there is still a
large contingent of
construction workers from
the Daniel Construction
Co. on the job, Vepco
officials have said that
shortly only a caretaker
force will be left.

Roy M. Cleek, chairman
of the Bath Board of
Supervisors, is a firm
believer that Vepco will,
within a year or so,
resume its project. Even if
it doesn’t, Cleek is not
about to concede that the
county will go into slide.

“We have some strong
willed people in Bath
County,” he said, ‘‘and
they and the county will
survive whether Vepco
comes or goes or anyone
else does.”

How a Fragile Centrist Bloc Emerged
As House Panel Weighed Impeachment

Cn^r.l rrM. _ * *1

Special to The. New York Tonies

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4— The
verdict of the House Judiciary
Committee came, in the end,
from the President’s own men.

Seven Republicans, three
conservative Democrats. In all,
10 natural allies of President
Nixon whose votes, shaped in
anguish and cast in sorrow,
were the critical mass of an
explosive moment in history.

This article was written
by James M. Naughton and
is based on reporting by
him , R. W. Apple Jr., Diane
Henry , Marjorie Hunter and
David E. Rosenbaum.

sonal. It involved the reluctant
conclusion months ago by the
committee chairman, Repre-
sentative Peter W. Rodino Jr.,

./• ' that the White House tapes and W mui me juugme

That moment came to pass, other evidence traced a pat- timately be based
visibly, stunningly, in the tele-|tern of misconduct by the Pres
vised decision of the Judiciary ’

that a vote for impeachment'
was worth the peril to their
own political careers.

It concluded a massive, pro-
cedural sleight of hand through
which Mr. Doar was able to lay;
before the committee, without'
objection from the President’^
lawyers or Mr. Nixon’s defend-
ers on the committee, the cen-
tral elements of evidence on
which the judgment would ul-

And the climax was caused

Committee to lodge the first
formal charges against a Presi-
dent in more than a century.
Yet the real drama of impeach-
ment, the test of wits and
struggles of conscience that
produced the decisive votes,
occurred largely in private.

It was a drama at once con-
stitutional, political and per-

• . , , ; -rwiju u ic cniiidA was causeu

en w ose signed portrait j n p ar t by an uncharacteristic
graced the chairman’s office attempt by the senior Republi-

lean, Representative Edward
Hutchinson of Michigan, to put
pressure on the committee mi-
nority to make a united de-
fense of the President. The
gambit backfired, driving four

wall.

It turrted on a strategy de-
signed to provide time for John
M. Doar, the special counsel,
to assemble the evidence that
might convince key Republi-

cans and Southern Democrats Republicans into a bipartisan

— the crucial, uncommitted cen- — - ■

ter of the divided committee — Continued on Page 14, Column )

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Continued From Page 1 , Col. 4

caucus — called, self-effacingly,

"the Unholy Alliance” — where
the first two articles of im-
peachment were drafted.

The alliance of the center in
favor of impeachment almost
collapsed twice, over a pro-
cedural disagreement and a
tactical lapse, in the closing
days of the committee delib-
erations. TTiXilclI11 0 . ^ UUCJl>

But when the inquiry ended jpublican of Maine: "Aye.”Har-
last Tuesday only 10 bitter-end °ld V. Froehlich, Republican of
Republicans out of the 38 com- Wisconsin: "Aye.”
mittee members had opposed
adoption of the resolution that
urged, in the stark language of
parliamentary law, "that Rich-
ard M. Nixon, President of the
United States, is impeached for
high crimes and misdemean-
ors.” And the votes of the 10

Mann. Democrat of South Car-
olina,: “Aye.” Ray Thornton,

Democrat ot Arkansas:- "Aye.”
Robert McClory, Republican of
Illinois: "Aye.” Tom Railsback,
Republican of Illinois: "Aye.”
Hamilton Fish Jr., Republican
of New York: "Aye.” Lawrence
J. Hogan, Republican of Mary-
land: "Aye.” M. Caldwell But-
ler, Republican of Virginia:
"Aye.” William S. Cohen, Re-

How the 10 came to their
separate judgments to enact
two or more articles of im-
peachment and then coalesced
to shape the wording of the
indictment formed the central
act of the drama. Based on
interviews with each of them

judgment the outcome would
hinge.

The political phase of the
strategy was brutally simple. It
was to preserve a bipartisan ap-
proach and obtain an image of
fairness by holding in check
those in the committee’s ma-
jority who were prepared, some
eager, to presume the worst
about Mr. Nixon’s conduct. At
closed party caucuses, Mr. Ro-
dino kept warning the Demo-
crats that the proceedings must
be fair — that the committee’s
decision was one that the pub-
lic in turn would judge and that
the nation at large might not
accept the verdict if Democrats
were seeen to have jumped to a
partisan finding.

c T e , n ,, at ,, the center i— and with other committee
echoed fatefully through Con- i members and aides, some on
8> \u'u « „ condition that they not he

Walter Flowers, Democrat of identified — here is how it
Alabama: "Aye.” James R.lhappened:

Lawrence J. Hogan of Maryland, left, M. Caldwell Butler of Virginia, cente^and WH-’
Ham S. Cohen of Maine: three Republicans who voted tor impeachment.

The Drafters

At 8:30 A.M. on July 23, the
Unholy Alliance — Republicans
Railsback, Cohen, Butle r and
Fish, Democrats Flowers, Mann
and Thornton — gathered, for
the first of many times during
the week of the impeachment
debate, around a conference ta-
ble in Mr. Railsback’s office.
There were coffee and rolls
“Toss me Danish.” Mr. Cohen
asked Mr. Railsback and the
pastry sailed the length of the
table — and there was unanimity.

“It was a terrible butterfly-
in-the-stomach day,” Mr. Fish
later remembered. “I would
• have questioned my judgment
| if everybody else had decided
against impeachment.”

The group discussed those is-
sues they could agree were not
grist for impeachment — secret
bombing in Cambodia, Mr. Nix-
on’s political donations from
corporations and industries
and then agreed they all could
support two articles of im-
peachment. if phrased accu-
rately, carefully, without polit-
ical hyperbole. Mr. Railsback
agreed to draft Article I, alleg-
ing obstruction of justice in the
Watergate case. Mr. Mann said
he would try his hand at Arti-
cle n, accusing Mr. Nixon of
persistent abuses of power.

The political risks were clear.
Mr. Flowers leaned toward Mr.
Butler at one point, and noting
how near the old capital of the
Confederacy was to Washing-
ton, he drawled, “You better
be careful, Caldwell. Every
pick-up in Richmond could be
here by nightfall.”

namnrrats who had been

assigned by Mr. Rodino to
draft impeachment articles
gladly consented to Mr. Mann’s
suggestion that the draft come
instead from the coalition of
centrist Republicans and Demo-
crats. The morning of July 24?
the day the first formal Pres-
idential impeachment delibera-
tions in 106 years were to
begin, the Unholy Alliance. met
again in Mr. Railsback’s office.

At 7 P.M., barely 45 minutes
before the debate began, they; j
finished a rough, and not r)
totally satisfactory, draft. It v
was introduced that night by \\
Representative Harold D. Don- vA
ohue, Democrat of Massaohu-
setts, who had been a fellow.
Navy officer with Mr. Nixon at
a small base in Iowa during.
World War II.

Throughout the week-long
debate, the coalition revised
the drafts of Article I and
Article II and Mr. Mann shut-
tled with the various versions
between the coalition group,
and the liberal Democrats
working under Representative
Jack Brooks of Texas. The two;
clusters agreed on a substitute
Article I. Friday, July 26, it,
was introduced by Mr. Sar-
banes. They agreed on a sub-
stitute Article II. Monday, July
27, it was offered by Repre-.,
sentative Hungate.

They helped to shape, but
did not all sanction, an eventu- .

, al Article III— Mr. McCloryVs

u n ca/l fho PrPciHpnt'S

charge based on the Presidents^
defiance of committee sub-
poenas — and when the week^
was over it would be the Pres-
ident’s men who had drafted
the indictment of Mr. Nixon.

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T • •

2 Staunton, Va., Leader, Monday, August 5, 1974

opens farm meeting

STEELES TAVERN— U.S.
Rep. William Wampler of the 9th
District and ranking minority
member of the House
Agricultural Committee, told
more than 400 persons attending
a farm conference held at
McCormick Farm here today
that American agriculture is
“plagued with inflation” due to
! goverment deficit spending.

Rep. Wampler’s remarks
1 came during a panel discussion
which also included Assistant
Secretory ofAgriculture Clayton
i Yeutter, U.S. Rep. J. Kenneth
1 Robinson of 1 the 7th District and
> U.S. Rep. M. Caldwell Butler of
the 6th District.

Reps. Butler and Robinson
were sponsors of the meeting,
intended to give farmers the
j opportunity to discuss
agricultural problems with
members of government,
i Rep. Wampler also accused
P the government of interfering
with “the laws of supply of
demand” and said that recently
there has been far too much
interference from the gover-
ment and the Cost of Living
Council.

Mr. Yeutter told the audience
that he sees the farmer as
I pressed between declining
; demand for protein foods— beef,
pork and poultry— and rising
production costs.

The Secretary, who heads the
International Affairs and
Commodity Programs Division
of the Department of
Agriculture, said that feed
prices are rising because of the
drought in the Midwest, and that
this crisis will create an ad-
ditional problem for farmers.
Another problem cited by Mr.
Yeutter is the slowdown of the
economies of developed coun-
tries of the world resulting in a
decreased demand for protein
foods.

The opening remarks were to
be followed by a panel discussion
and a question-and-answer
period.

Congressmen
seen favoring

■*/£/' It

CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP)—
A EPll taken by the Charlottes-
ville Daily Progress indicates
that at least half and maybe
more of Virginia’s 10 con-
gressmen will vote to impeach
President Nixon.

Polled were staff members
of seven of the state’s con-
gressmen, who, while asking
not to be named, agreed that
the final vote among the Vir-
ginians will range between 5-5
and- 7.3 i n favor of bringing
Nixon to' trial before the Sen-
ate.

The staff members nj so
agreed that this estimate is
based on the summaries of
evidence given before the
House Judiciary Committee,
and that the figure may re-
quire revision when the actual
evidence is presented, or when
other evidence such as the sub-
poenaed tapes becomes avail-
able.

But none ~^«JMeved the
President’s positior^ jth thp
delegation would iriiWyg
because of the addition
evidence.

One Republican
congressman’s press represent-!
ative said he is “scared to
death” of the tapes ordered
turned over by the Supreme
Court.

“I can only believe that if
those tapes would have been
helpful to the President, tkey
would have been turned o\er
long ago,” he said.

Ironically, the heaviest vofc
favoring impeachment- a rmmfe
the Virginians will apparently
come from Nixon’s own party.

The staff members in-
terviewed who would name
names believed that four, or
possibly five, of the seven GOP
members are presently leaning
toward impeachment. In their
view, only one of the three
Democrats favors impeach-
ment at this time.

^ The Republicans believed to
-be favoring impeachment are
Reps. Joel Broyhill of the 10th
District, William Whitehurst
of the 2nd, Stanford Parris of
the 8th and M. Caldwell Butler
of the 6tlL^r: '

Robert Daniel of the 4th Dis-
trict is believed to be also lean-
ing toward impeachment, but
is under terrific pressure from
his supporters in the con-
servative Southside district to
stand by the President.

Only one GOP congressman,

J. Kenneth Robinson of the
7th, was believed to be “locked
into” a vote against impeach-
m ent

dynamite evidence that makes
the vote all but unanimous, I
would say that Kenny Rob-
inson will hang in there with
Nixon along with Dave Sat-
terfield and Dan Daniel,” said
a Republican staffer.

Satterfield and Daniel are
Democrats who represent the
3rd and 5th Districts respecit-
vely.

Democrat Thomas Downing
of the 1st District is generally
regarded as favoring a Senate
trial. None of those questioned
would venture & guess as to the
position of the GOP 9th Dis-
trict representative, William
Wampler.

THREE CONGRESSMEN did more listening than talking
yesterday at the third annual Farm Conference at the Cyrus
McCormick farm near Steeles Tavern. The event, attended

f* — '■ ■ — — %

by about 600, was sponsored by Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
(left) and Rep. J. Kenneth Robinson (center), with Rep.
William C. Wampler as special guest.

( N-V Photos by Berlin )

Butler fields

Farm Conference

Watergate
questions j

STEELES TAVERN — The subject wa*e
supposed to have been agriculture, but like
a pesky weed, Watergate kept cropping up
at a farm conference held Monday ad
McCormick Farm here. a

In his opening remarks, U.S. Rep. Mi.
Caldwell Butler said he knew what was ord
everybody’s minds, but during the con*,
ference he didn’t want to become diverted,
by “that” subject. Afterwards he would be^
happy to hear comments.

And the comments came. A freckle-
faced 12-year-old stepped up and
forthrightly told the Representative that

(Continued from Page 1)

American feeders are losing
their shirts? If you’re up there to
do the job, you’re certainly not
doing it. There certainly should
be enough common sense to see
. . . that some are going
bankrupt We don’t get free
haircuts as the senators do or $1
haircuts as the congressmen
do.”

Mr. Robinson and Mr.
Wampler interrupted to assure
Mr. Horn that their haircuts cost
$2. “Then you’re not keeping us
informed,” Mr. Horn retorted.
He went on to imply a certain
“deception” in the agriculture
budget, to which Rep. Robinson
heatedly replied:

“There is no deception. It is a
pet peeve of mine when I read
the size of the agriculture budget
that half of it is going to food
stamps. This is not a department
program; it is a welfare
program. And if you think there
will be any repeal of food
stamps, you are wrong, as much
as the Virginia delegation would
be happy to do it. Stamps should
not be charged to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, but we
can’t get rid of the situation
because of the way the stupid
law is worded.” This response
also elicited applause.

Mr. Butler, a member of the
House Judiciary Committee
which has just completed
preliminary impeachment
proceedings, opened the con-
ference on a lighter note:
“There is one subject we can’t
talk about here today because it
may divert us — and if you don’t
know what that subject is, I’m
not going to tell you.”

Mr. Yeutter, however,
violated the groundrules: “Mr.
Butler conducted himself ( at the
hearings) with great grace and
dignity ... You can take off your
hats to him for that.”

Mr. Robinson spoke of the
“depressing climate” in
Washington and said there are
rumors that members of the
House will serve four-year terms
in the future — “two in
Congress, two in jail.”

Mr. Wampler, ranking
Republican on the House
Agriculture Committee, ob-
served that “you probably would
be willing to swap the presence
of all three of us for one good
soaking rain.”

More seriously, Mr. Wampler
voiced the opinion that “our
great capacity to produce food
and fiber is the greatest weapon
for peace.” But, he said, “we
must see agriculture receiving
its fair share of the nationa'
income. In this, government has
a legal and moral respon-
sibility . . .”

Mr. Yeutter, in his opening
remarks, expressed concern at
the recent decline in consumer
demand for protein products —
meat, poultry and dairy foods —
and said the problem will not be
solved “until the economy starts
rolling again.”

Problems of spiraling
uncertain markets, stiff foreign
competition, fuel shortages, high
taxes and declining profits were
detailed before the panel by
spokesmen of the dairy, poultry
and banking industries, the
inia Agribusiness Council
9 ft vidual farmers.

and the ad-

ministration have failed
miserably to counteract in-
flation,” said Mike Ellis of the
Virginia Poultry Federation,
who also called the proposed
Consumer Protection Agency “a
monstrosity.” Paul Williams,
executive director of the
Agribusiness Council urged »,
government economy and a
balanced budget John Miller,
executive director of the
Virginia State Dairymen’s
Association, urged the adoption
of new policies to combat foreign *
competition. 1

Mr. Wampler said his com- i
mittee has passed a resolution
asking the President to invoke 4
quotas on beef imports. But he J
warned that this step may invite
counter-measures; **trtg - n ut as *
simple as waving a magic ?
wand.”

In response to a question posed
by Mrs. Mary Frances Houff of j
Weyers Cave, panelist Ferris S.
Anderson of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Labor said that new
federal safety standards for
older farm equipment are being
evaluated and that, in any event,
they do not apply to owner-
operated machines.

Following a barbecued
chicken lunch, members of the
audience spoke informally with
the three congressmen and the
visiting agricultural experts.

a rmerv Complain
Of Costs, Prices

From Page 15

tary restraints on beef sales to
the U.S. with several countries.

Expansion of American agri-
cultural exports, according to
\ cutter , is the key to lower
consumer food prices here
without denying the farmer a
living.

His theme did not seem to
garner much enthusiasm from
the farmers present, several of
whom responed by noting the
high , import duties placed on
American products abroad,
particularly in Europe. The
notorious Russian wheat deals
of 1972 were also mentioned.

‘‘That series of transactions
has> been unduly criticized,”
said Yuetter. “In general it has
been a good thing, for the farm-
ers arid the consumer. It was a
significant improvement of our
relations with the USSR and
opened new trade markets.”

Yuetter said the livestock
farmer, who presently faces
spiralling feed costs and low-
ered consumer demand for

meat at home, could be doing
better by increasing export
sales. He said livestock produc-
ers, processors and retailers
should form a world council for
livestock exports such as the
successful grain council
formed by American grain
producers.

Paul Williams, executive di-
rector of the Virginia Agri-Bus-
iness Council, agreed that
agricultural trade should be
expandedn but on the domestic
scene he, along with John Mil-
ler of the Virginia Dairymen’s
Association and several' others
called for a stop to “govern-
ment meddling in the free mar-
ket.”

A representative of the state
poultrymen’s association said
the large federal bureaucracy
by overspending and creating
mounds of paperwork, is
“stifling production and ser-
vice innovations for the con-
sumer.”

He said various regulatory
agencies often clash among
themselves over what a pro-
ducer must do.

I Farmers Complain
l Of Costs, Prices

; • Bv KATHY CRADDOCK

E Times Shenandoah Bureau
fc STEELES TAVERN - High
I production costs, low market
\ prices, government interfer-
' ence and unrestricted agricul-
► tural imports were among the
l complaints fielded Monday , by
fr three Virginia congressmen,
: an assistant secretary of the

* U.S. Department of Agricul-
! ture (USDA) and other state
£ and federal officials at the
r third afinual farm conference.

‘ About 150 area farmers gath-
1 ered on the benches of baled
; hay under the large tent set up
: at the McCormick Farm Me-

* morial to air their views and

* ask questions at the event co-
, sponsored by Rep. M. Caldwell
’ Butler, R-6th District, and
l Rep. J. Kenneth Robinson, R-
: 7th District.

J. Troy Horn of Churchville,

■ who described himself as a

■ small feed operator, lambasted
I the congressmen for doing an
I ineffectual job by allowing im-
I portation of beef “while Amer-
ican feeders are losing their

| shirts.”

Rep. William C. Wampler, R-
9th District, said the govern-
ment should do something
about beef imports but pointed
out that trade barriers set up
by the U.S. may prompt the
country affected to take simi-
liar action against U.S. ex-
ports.

“Blame me, not your con-
gressmen” for the beef im-
ports, said Clayton Yeutter,
assistant USDA secretary for
international affairs and com-
modity programs.;

Implementation of import
quotas is a responsibility of the
administration, said Yeutter.

He said the reason beef quo-
tas have not been established is
because “we need to have ex-
ports as well as imports. We
risk losing three dollars in ex-
port sales for every dollar we
save by cutting off beef im-
ports.”

Wampler added that he un-
derstood the government has
been able to negotiate volun-

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Sitting to His Left Are M. a Id well Butler, J. Kenneth Robinson and Clayton Yeutter

7 /

Farmers air problems
with government officials

By JOHN A. MILLER
Leader Staff Writer

STEELES TAVERN — Discussion of
international trade negotiations, import
quotas and the European Common
Market s tariff on poultry alternated with
concerns < such as lack of

a p H fa ‘ ’M^ nday at a farm conf erence
held at McCormick Farm near here

The session attracted 650 farmers and
agri-business persons to what was billed as
an opportunity to air problems to U.S. ReD
M. Caldwell Butler of the 6th District, U.S.'
Rep. J. Kenneth Robinson of the 7th
District, U.S Rep. William Wampler of the
th District, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Clayton Yeutter and a panel of
agricultural experts.

Farmers voiced displeasure over purely
domestic matters such as what they

cons dered to be excessive land taxes,
unfair restrictions on the use of herbicides
and overiy burdensome safety protection
for farm machinery. But when it came to
complaints of too much imported beef or
the uncertainty of demand for farm
products, the discussion soon became
enmeshed in the international situation.

rh T [ 0y ,? orn > a cattle farmer from near
Churchville, questioned the policy of
allowing beef imports from Argentina
Australia and Poland when American
cattlemen like himself are faced with
serious losses this year.

The reply came from Mr. Yeutter who
is a cattleimin in addition to being the’head
of the International Affairs and Com-
modity Programs Division of the
Department of Agriculture. He said this
country invites retaliation against exports

(See Farmers, Page 2 )

employer.

i Meanwhile, State Police Investigator R
D. Grimes, who traveled to Roanoke today
to confer with Dr. David Oxley, chief
™® dl< : al examiner, about bones and
particles of clothing which were uncovered
Saturday at the spot where the couple was
reportedly abandoned, said “new in-
formation ” has cropped up concerning the

JC. cunidcieu ms sandman said there is no question in his

“ 7™ omu u| cre is no question in his
mind but that the transcript establishes an
impeachable offense under the first article
of impeachment voted by the committee —
the one charging obstruction of justice in
the cover-up of the Watergate break-in
Asked whether he thinks the Senate
would convict Nixon if the House votes
impeachment, Sandman replied, “I can’t
see how they could do otherwise ’’

-V me Rep. Charles E. Wiggins, R-Calif., who

(See Suspects, Page 2 ) Q/fg_ (See Republicans, Page 2 )

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1974

TO MEET WITH RESIDENTS

Miss Mary Frances Whissen,
representative of U.S. Rep M.
Caldwell Butler, will be in
Council Chambers of Staunton
City Hall Thursday from 9 a.m.-
noon to meet with residents.

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Del. Garland says ^
Nixon should fell|n

ByOZZIE OSBORNE
Political Writer

One of the Roanoke area’s
three Republicans in the Gen-
eral Assembly today said he
believes it would be best for
President Nixon to resign.

“I don’t see how he could
possibly sustain himself in of-
fice now,” said Del. Ray L.
Garland.

Garland’s statement was one
of the strongest made on Nixon
by Republicans following the
President’s disclosure that he
had withheld evidence from his
own lawyers, from Congress
and the American people.

Rep. G. William Whitehurst
of Norfolk in a harsh statement
said “I’m just sick over this.”

“I don’t think any man has
the right to deliberately lie to
the people and continue to hold
office,” he said.

Whitehurst said Nixon
“certainly ought to consider
resignation. This thing is ago-
nizing for the country and he
should consider the implica-
tions of a Senate trial and the
evidence that would be pro-
duced at the trial.”

He said further he agrees
with the President that im-
peachment by the House is a
foregone conclusion. “Under
the circumstances I believe the
Senate would probably convict
him.”

/ General shock was expressed
i by some other Republicans,

I with Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
\ of the 6th District saying “the
' ball game is all over now” for
\the President.

Butler is a member of the
\ House Judiciary Committee,
.which has been conducting an
(impeachment inquiry.

! Butler said he would not call
for the President’s resignation,
nor would he speculate on the

President’s chances in a Senate
impeachment trial.

“That’S' their problem now,”,
he said. /

In calling for Nixon’s resig-
nation, Garland said no good
purpose would be served by
having the Senate hash over the
evidence that has been present-
ed to the House Judiciary Com-
mittee.

Garland said Nixon’s posi-
tion now appears completely
unsupportable.

Another Roanoke area legis-

lator, State Sen. David F.
Thornton of Salem, said he was
“very upset and very disap-
pointed” at the latest turn in
the Nixon case.

“Resignation might be the
easy way out,” he said. “But I
wouldn’t go so far as to urge
him to resign at this point.”

The strongest statement
from a Virginia Democratic
House member concerning
Nixon was made by Rep.
Thomas N. Downing, who said
the President ought to quit.

“This has got to be a devas-
tating blow to the President.
Some of his most ardent sup-
porters now feel that he has
betrayed them and, as a conse-
quence, they now favor im-
peachment.

“Impeachment in the House
now seems to be a certainty
and conviction in the Senate is
most probable. The President,
in the best interests of the
country and of himself, should
resign.”

Republican Rep. Robert

See DEL., Pg. 4, Col. 2

Del. Garland says
Nixon should quit

From Page 1 court records and no autopsy.’*

Daniel, making his strongest He was referring to the drown-
statement on the Nixon affr ir ing of a girl in a car driven by
so far, said it was apparent Kennedy,
that President Nixon was prov-
iding cover to Watergate defen-
dants— something he has < .

vehemently denied.

“I think he is conceding that
the American people were mi-
sled by what he said,” said
Daniel. “He is saying he with-
held relevant information
shortly after the Watergate
break-in occurred.”

Daniel said he didn’t feel
qualified to call for the Presi-
dent to resign, but added, “I’m
sure he feels that the pressures
for resignation have in-
creased.” Daniel represents
the Southside 4th District.

U. S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr.,
independent, said he has not
made up his mind on impeach-
ment.

“I have not prejudged this
case and I shall not,” said
Byrd. ‘‘I have made no state-
ment publicly or privately.”

Byrd was listed in the latest
Newsweek magazine as one of
the 36 senators the White
House is counting on to vote
innocent if and when the Presi-
dent is tried in the U. S. Senate.

U.S. Sen. William L. Scott,
the state’s junior Republican
senator, said he is going to
withhold judgment on the Pres-
ident. He added that he was
surprised that the President
didn’t make a full disclosure to
begin with.

He alluded to U.S. Sen. Ed-
ward Kennedy when he said
people attack the President,

“but I still think of that little
girl under nine feet of water at
Chappaquiddick and closed

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on. Rep. Otto E. Passman, D-
La., said the disclosure of the
new tapes would not be enough
to force him to vote for im-
peachment.

“I’ve got to judge him over-
all, by what he’s accom-
plished,” Passman said. “To
err is human, to forgive is di-
vine.”

Rep. G. V. “Sonny” 'Mont-
gomery, D-Miss., who has been
trying to rally support for Nix-
on among Democrats, said “I
don’t feel very good, and it’s
my birthday.”

He said he was “not ready to
throw rocks at the presidency
until I can read the transcripts.
Then I will announce my deci-
sion.’’

Rep. Joe D. Waggonner, D-
La., said he wanted to wait un-
til the dust settled before com-
mitting himself. But he added,
“the only thing I’ve got to say
— it hurts.”

That was a typical reaction
among Republicans who have
been uncommitted or leaning
against impeachment. “The
thing that bothers me most is
that he deceived his fellow
man. That’s what hurts,” said
Rep. Carleton J. King, R-N.Y.,

Rep. Barber B. Conable, Jr.,
R-N.Y., an influential leader
among conservative Republi-
cans, said he was prepared to
vote for impeachment on the
basis of Nixon’s own announce-
ment.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep.
Charles W. Sandman Jr.,
RN.J., who vociferously de-
fended President Nixon during
the House Judiciary Commit-
tee inquiry, said today he has
called on Nixon to resign and
that he will vote for impeach-
ment if the President does not
do so.

Among the 10 Republican
members of the committee
who had opposed all proposed
articles of impeach meat, : Sand-
man was the fifth 4 o change his

mind because of Nixon's disclo-
sure that he withheld evidence
from the committee.

Four others said they wete
reassessing their position aiti
the 10th could not be reach^j
for comment.

One of those reassessing hi
position, Rep. Delbert L. Lath
of Ohio, said in an interviev
this morning: “I’ve always felt
that in order to impeach a pres-
ident you had to have direct r
evidence and here the Presi- V
dent was furnishing the direct

evidence himself.”

Latta, asked if his vote had
switched, said: “Well, we ha-
ven’t cast that vote, but cer-
tainly you can’t defend that one
particular charge. I think the
only remaining question is
whether or not that standing in
and of itself would be an im-
peachable offense.

Latta appeared on the CBS
Morning News.

Sandman told a liews confer-
ence that the transcript of a
June 23, 1972 conversation re-

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the type of hard proof I believe
is necessary. I can see no es-
cape from this information.”
Sandman said there is no
question in his mind but that
the transcript establishes an
impeachable offense under the
first article of impeachment
voted by the committee — the
one charging obstruction of jus-^
tice in the cover-up of the Wa-
tergate break-in.

“I sincerely hope the Presi-
dent will act with dispatch,”
Sandman said. “My view now
is the vote will be practically
unanimous.”

Asked whether he thinks the
Senate would convict Nixon if
the House votes impeachment.
Sandman replied, “I can’t see
how they could do otherwise.”
Rep. Charles E. Wiggins, R-
Calif., who carried the main
burden of Nixon’s defense in
the Judiciary Committee. <^io
Monday: “After considerable
reflection, I have reached the
painful conclusion that the
President of the United States
should resign.” Wiggins added
that he would vote for impeach-
ment if Nixon remained in <*-
fice.

Also changing their minds
Monday on impeachment were
Republican Judiciary Com-
mittee members David W. Den-
nis of Indiana, Wiley Mayne of
Iowa and Joseph J. Maraziti of
New Jersey.

Those on the committee reas-
sessing their positions, in addi-
tion to Latta, were Carlos J.
Moorhead of California, Henry
P. Smith III of New York and
the committee’s ranking Re-
publican, Edward Hutchinson
of Michigan.

Rep. Trent Lott, R-Miss..
could not be reached for com-
ment.

Meanwhile, committee mem-
bers who voted for impeach-
ment said Nixon’s action con-
firms their view. One of them*

Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, R-Va.,
said Nixon’s statement “makes
me a little more comfortable
with my vote.”

A kernel of support remained
among the southern Democrats
who have long sided with Nix-

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Retaliation F eared

Will Nixon's Legion Shell Its Own Troops?

THE- HOUSE of Representatives is
moving inexorably toward the destruc-
tion of Richard Nixon, and some of Mr.
Nixon’s most ardent supporters are mov-
ing, in the same tidal wave, toward the
destruction of their own best interests.

Forget Mr. Nixon for the moment.
What are these convulsions doing to the
Republican party? And what lies ahead
for conservative causes?

The 1972 election saw 47.2 million votes
cast for the Republican Nixon, 29.2 mil-
lion for the Democrat McGovern. If
these 76.4 million voters constitute a rea-
sonable political universe, we can make
some rough extrapolations from the pop-
ularity polls. These polls show that about
26 or 27 per cent of the people still stand
by the President. Conclusion: Some 20
million voters— call them Nixon’s Le-
gion-remain bitterly opposed , to the
President’s impeachment and removal
from office.

The figures are rough, but they proba-
bly are roughly accurate. A legion of 20
million fired-up voters is a potent, politi-
cal force: and anyone who supposes the
President’s defenders are not fired up
should browse through the mail now
flooding Republican offices. The legion
sees impeachment as a conspiracy be-
tween double-standard Democrats and a
double-standard press. These voters
have blood in their eyes.

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

“The pro-Nixon voters have it
within their power, if they choose to
exercise that power , to make or
break a score of Republican or con -
servative congressmen this fall. ”

The question arises: How will Nixon’s
Legion expend its political force? These
voters have it within their power, if they
choose to exercise that power, to make
or break a score of Republican or conser-
vative congressmen this fail. By with-
holding campaign contributions, or by
staying home in November, the legion
can effectively deny re-election to mem-
bers of the House who vote in favor of
impeachment.

It would not be an easy road, under the
best of circumstances, for Republicans
in marginal districts this fall. Rightly or
wrongly, a president and his party tend
to be blamed for economic ills, and such
blame rubs off on a party’s candidates.
Historically, the party in presidential
power loses close seats in off-year elec-
tions. If one adds to these factors the
anger of Nixon’s Legion, the problem of
a pro-impeachment Republican becomes
evident.

( A ? Consider, for example, the position of
M. Caldwell Butler of Virginia’s Sixth
District. He is a first-termer who won

election in 1972 by 55 per cent of the vote.
Or consider the situation of John M. Ash-
brook of Ohio’s 17th District. He won his
sixth term in 1972 with 57 per cent of the
vote. Both men are solid conservatives;
both are seeking re-election. The arith-
metic tells its own story: If the legion?
abandons these two excellent congress-;
men, they could be in serious trouble.

Prejudice runs deeper than reason. If
it were possible for members of the le-
gion to suspend their pro-Nixon prejud-
ice, and to listen to the cool voice of
reason, perhaps they could be persuaded
of the political disaster they are court-
ing. Their passionate support of the
President can do little for Mr. Nixon
now; but if this passion is turned in retri-
bution against such men as Butler and
Ashbrook, the result could be a liberal
landslide.

This is madness. The leaders of organ-
ized labor are licking their chops and
looking to November. If 30 or 40 seats in
the House change hands, passing from
moderate-conservative Republicans to
moderate-liberal Democrats, we will
approach the “veto-proof” Congress that
is the dream of organized labor. The con-
sequences cannot be reckoned in terms
of labor legislation alone; the conse-
quences would ripple across the whole
surface of congressional power. The le-
gion would lose both the battle and the
war. What price passion?

The President’s defenders cannot let
their anger destroy their common sense.
Simmer down, I would say. Sober up!
Look ahead! If Mr. Nixon goes down the
drain, let him go. But if we have one
ounce of political maturity, let us save
what is left.

Butler: Yeas IStill Ahead

By N-V Staff Writer

STEELES TAVERN - Taking
time out from his Farm Con-
ference to talk with reporters,
Sixth District Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler said here yesterday that
“a substantial number” of his
constituents have expressed
\ “disappointment” at his vote in
; the House Judiciary Committee
to proceed with articles of im-

peachment against President
Nixon.

On the other hand, he said,
responses endorsing his vote are
running “modestly ahead” of
the negative responses.

Turning to another subject,
Mr. Butler said that legislation
to provide funds for design work
on the proposed Verona Dam
remains in the hands of a con-

ference committee. Funds have
been approved by the Senate,
but not by the House, he
disclosed.

Congress has approved a plan
through which the dam would be
designed before its actual
construction is authorized. The
original bill, however, merely
authorized the preliminary 1
work; it did not provide the
funds :

WASHINGTON - Sixth Dis- f
trict Rep. M. Caldwell Butler,
R-Va., said Monday night Pres-
ident Nixon’s admission that 4
he had withheld evidence from
the House Judiciary Commit- j
tee during its impeachment in- *
quiry made it almost certain ,
that every member of the com- j
mittee would support impeach- ,
ment. j

The Roanoke Times’ Wash-
ington bureau quoted Butler as
saying the revelation that Pres-
ident Nixon had withheld por- j
tions of presidential conversa- !
tions meant “the ball game is ;
all over now.” 1

Butler, who admits he may .j
owe his seat in the House to i
the President’s campaign ef- 1
fort in his behalf in 1972, voted j
with several Republicans and
all 21 Democrats of the judi- ’
ciary committee in approving -j
two articles of impeachment. :

Butler backed one article ^
charging the President with 1
obstruction of justice in the j
Watergate coverup and a sec- <
ond article charging the Presi- ^
dent with abuse of power in ]
the office of the presidency.

Butler said that he got back *
to Washington late Monday af-
ternoon and that the revelation j-
was the topic of virtually every j >
conversation on the House
floor.

“The reaction is one that ,
you might expect,” Butler said.

“I think every one on the com- 1
mittee will now support article
one and probably article two as
well.” /

1 ^ Butler’s milk money 7 |

J Q. I understand from the press that Cald*
well Butler only accepted 81,000 from the
\( cooperatives for his election. Is that

jV true? — H.R.H.

A. Yes. Rep. Butler accepted $1,000 from
y, sp ACE, which is the political arm of Dairymen,
Inc. Butler said the money was handled legally.
> He said recently that there are substantial dairy
interests in his district and he considered these
contributions as a legitimate expression of their in-
terest in his campaign. “My campaign committee
has followed the spirit and letter of the law in
every detail and promptly and properly reported
these contributions,” he said. The money was used,
in Butler’s 1972 campaign. 1

Audited Circulation

LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1974

AT FARM CONFERENCE Monday, Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler chats with a group from Rockbridge. From left are

Clarence Tardy, Butler, J^ete wmtiock, Jack Smith and
David F. “Jim” Bear. staff photo

Event Draws Crowd:

^Farm Problems Aired
At Area Conference

With farm prices down and
production costs spiraling,
farpi spokesmen had plenty
of suggestions to give their
congressional represen-
tatives at Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler's f&rm conference
Monday.

A crowd estimated at over
600 overflowed the big tent
erected for the conference at
the McCormick Farm at
Steeles Tavern.

The conference, organized
h^.Butler who represents the
Gr District, was co-
L/ onsored by Rep. J. Kenneth
)binson of the 7th District
[ e id Rep. William C. Wam-
*- 0 W of the 9th District.

It was, as Robinson com-
r mented, one of the rare oc-
casions when the three
congressmep are able to get :
together for such a public
event.

Views from the top echelon
of the U. S. Department of
agriculture were com-
municated to the gathering
by Clayton Yeutter, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for
international affairs and
commodity programs.

After the formal portion of
the program the crowd en-
joyed a free chicken bar-
becue dinner in perfect
summer weather. The dinner
' was arranged by the Butler
farm committee and refresh-
> merits were sold by members
of the Rockbridge 4-H Honor
Club. *

In his brief opening ,
remarks, Butler said that f
“one subject is oif limits,” j
and he left no doubt that the -i
subject was his recent vote in ?
the House Judiciary Com-
mittee for the articles of,
^^impeachment.

Wr The only reference made to
f the subject during the *
meeting was a compliment
^from Yeutter, who said
' Butler had conducted himself
with “great dignity” during a
“very difficult period” and he

aiafli > qu can —

hats off tb him.” The com-
ment was greeted by ap-
plause from the audience.

During and after lunch
groups gathered to talk in-
formally with the
|ongressmen and with the
anel of nine agriculture
experts who had been
assembled for the con-
ference.

Butler received a number
of comments — both
favorable and unfavorable —
from constituents on his
impeachment stand. He said
that in the mail and calls his
office has received, the
comments in favor of his
position were running
“modestly ahead” of those
opposed. A member of his
office staff who was present
said that the mail which had
flooded the office the first few
days after his statement on
impeachment had “tapered
off some” but was still so
heavy that the staff could
hardly keep up with it.

During the morning session
spokesmen for several

agricultural organizations
used most of the time alloted
for comments from the
public.

However, one individual
spokesman, J. Troy Horn of
Augusta County, a small
cattleman, livened the
proceedings by calling the
congressmen and govern-
ment officials to task.

Claiming that the quotas on
beef cattle importation that
were lifted last year should
be reinstated, he charged the
congressmen with being
“ineffective.”

He also charged that the
budget of the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture is being
vastly inflated by placing the
food stamp program in that
department instead of in the

agency that administers
welfare. This makes it falsely
appear that great sums are
being spent for the benefit of
the farmer.

Rep. Robinson replied that
he agreed with Horn on the
food stamp program, but said
that in order to accomplish
the change the stamp
program as it is now set up
would have to be repealed.

Commenting on the import
quota question, Yeutter sai^
that by urging voluntary
restraints on foreign coun-
tries the U. S. has reduced the
imports of beef almost to
quota level. If the ad-
ministration reimposes
quotas, he said, it would risk
retaliatory action against U.
S. agricultural exports that

could cost this country $3 for
every $1 saved.

He noted that the U. S.
should do a job of promoting
the exports of meat com-
parable to the job done by the
successful grain council
formed by American grain
producers.

John Miller, spokesman
for the Virginia Dairymen’s
Association urged imposition
of countervailing duties on
imports of cheese and
powdered milk, to counteract
the subsidies of foreign
governments op these
products.

Yeutter said the U. S. had
succeeded in getting sub-
sidies removed from
European dairy products and
his department is asking the
Treasury Department to
move with countervailing
duties against other nations
in an effort to get them to
remove their subsidies.

Noting complaints raised
by the dairy spokesman on
the cpst-price squeeze, he
said the industry needs to get
a price for its product that
will give dairymen a fair
return. “We must get the
public to understand that food
is not costly in this country.
In other countries housewives
give food a higher priority in
their budgets,” he declared.

Paul Williams of the
Virginia Agri-Business
Council, pointed out that after
a good year in 1973, the
present year is shaping up as
one of the worst for many
farmers. Hogs and poultry
are selling for less than the
cost of production and low
Drices are being offered for
eeder calves, he said.

In addition to urging better
rade legislation, he asked
le congressmen to strive for

(continued on page 8)

t (continued from page 1)

a balanced federal budget
a«d * to avoid any further
attempts to freeze
j agricultural prices.

In informal comments
later, Yeutter stated that
agriculture had fared poorly
in the Kennedy Round of
| trade negotiations, but that in
the current round of
negotiations, with which he is
working, it should fare better.

Several questions ex-
pressed concern about
regulations for farmers
proposed by the Occupational
Safety and Health Ad-
ministration (OSHA). Ferris
Anderson, OSHA district
supervisor, said that the new
regulations will not apply to
I family farms, but will only
come into play where a
farmer employs help.

Others Say

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A Bonus for Mr. Butler

From the Virginian-Pilot
Even Senator William Lloyd Scott of
Virginia, who is normally one of the last
to get the word, is conceding now that
president Nixon's position has “changed
fer the worse” in recent weeks. He re-
cognizes that the impeachment of Mr.
Nixon is likely to come to a Senate trial,
though he— like the rest of the Honora-
bles— is being coy how he'd vote.

But Mr. Scott said that he di<
agree with the reasoning of Representa-
tive M. Caldwell Butler, the Republican
from Roanoke who voted for two of the
three articles of impeachment in the
House Judiciary Committee proceed-
ings, and noted that he’d be reluctant to
campaign for him this year. Mr. Butler
is getting all the breaks lately.

Pa9e 24 NeV 2'^S^' Lex, ngton, Virginia August 7 , 1974

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Club at Butler^fafm conTerence h^^Mondi'" 18 ! ‘? n ®!’ essmen are members of the 4-H Honor
left) S'™ Farm - p * cture< l (from

C. Wampler and 6th District Rep M CaWwS Butltr "" S ° n ’ 9 ‘ h DiStHct Re P Wi,liam

* Farm Talks
To Be Held
In Rockbridge

Three western Virginia con-
gressmen will discuss agricul-
tural matters today at a farm
conference and barbecue at
McCormick Farm in Rock-
bridge Countv.

Reps. M. Caldwell Butler,
6th district, J. Kenneth Robin-
son, 7th district, and William
C. Wampler, 9th district, will
participate in a panel discus-
sion with Clayton Yeutter, as-
sistant secretary of agriculture
who heads the division of Inter-
national Affairs and Commodi-
ty Programs.

Yeutter will also make an
informal address at the free
barbecue luncheon which be-
gins at noon, Butler said.

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